Six people were injured \u2013 two critically \u2013 in a fiery crash in Queens when a BMW struck a highway median and vaulted over the barrier, striking two vehicles in oncoming traffic, cops said.<\/p>\n
The 24-year-old driver of the white 2015 BMW was headed east on the Belt Parkway at Exit 17 near Cross Bay Boulevard when he lost control, hit the concrete barrier and launched over it around 6 a.m. Saturday, police said.<\/p>\n
The BMW then smacked into a 2016 Honda CRV and a red 2022 Hyundai and caught fire, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Six people were injured \u2014 two criticall \u2014 in a crash on the Belt Parkway in Queens, cops said. Diego Luzuriaga\/FreedomNewsTV<\/p>\n
Photos show victims being rushed to a waiting ambulance after the 6 a.m. crash. Diego Luzuriaga\/FreedomNewsTV<\/p>\n
The driver of the BMW and a female passenger were rushed to Brookdale Hospital in critical condition, a police spokesman said. The female\u2019s age was unknown, according to cops.<\/p>\n
A 34-year-old woman who was driving the Hyundai was also taken to the hospital in stable condition, cops said.<\/p>\n
The cars in the three-vehicle collision were badly damaged. Diego Luzuriaga\/FreedomNewsTV<\/p>\n
The man who was driving and a female, whose age was unknown, were critically injured in the BMW, cops said. Diego Luzuriaga\/FreedomNewsTV<\/p>\n
The white BMW\u2019s hood appears to have been peeled back from the impact.<\/p>\n
Dramatic photos showed victims being rushed to an ambulance, while others were treated by emergency responders at the scene.<\/p>\n
A 21-year-old woman and two 25-year-old men in the BMW were taken to a hospital in stable condition, cops said. <\/p>\n
The red Hundai was struck by the BMW, which launched over the medium, cops said. Diego Luzuriaga\/FreedomNewsTV<\/p>\n
Diego Luzuriaga\/FreedomNewsTV<\/p>\n
It was unclear what caused the driver to lose control but police said speed may have been an issue.<\/p>\n
Diego Luzuriaga\/FreedomNewsTV<\/p>\n
One photogrph shows a baby seat at the scene, but police said they had no information about minors being injured in the crash.<\/p>\n
The NYPD\u2019s Collision Investigation Squad was probing the wreck, cops said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Six people were injured \u2013 two critically \u2013 in a fiery crash in Queens when a BMW struck…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":41853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,32985,5303,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5257,4413,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-41852","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-belt-parkway","10":"tag-car-crashes","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-nypd","19":"tag-queens","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-us-news","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114803044834110800","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}