{"id":469507,"date":"2025-12-24T21:14:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T21:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/469507\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T21:14:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T21:14:37","slug":"new-details-revealed-in-gruesome-nyc-chain-reaction-crash-that-killed-75-year-old-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/469507\/","title":{"rendered":"New details revealed in gruesome NYC chain-reaction crash that killed 75-year-old woman"},"content":{"rendered":"

The gruesome crash that killed a 75-year-old woman<\/a> in East Harlem Tuesday was a freak chain-reaction collision involving nearly a dozen vehicles, according to police. <\/p>\n

The deadly crash started around 6:30 a.m. when a private garbage truck lost control and slammed into a BMW X5, then slammed into nine other vehicles, four of them double-parked.<\/p>\n

One of the cars, a Kia Forte, became lodged in front of the truck \u2014 serving as a lethal battering ram that shattered scaffolding on East 101st Street and First Avenue, causing a cascade of metal and wood crashing down on the unsuspecting elderly victim and severing her legs, witnesses said. <\/p>\n

A private garbage truck careened out of control Tuesday morning and took out 10 vehicles before hitting a pedestrian. Robert Mecea<\/p>\n

The owner of the garbage truck said the driver was going under the speed limit and passed drug and alcohol checks. Robert Mecea<\/p>\n

The 47-year-old driver of the BMW and a 22-year-old man behind a Ford box truck were both injured and were listed in stable condition at New York-Presbyterian\/Weill Cornell Medical Center, police said.<\/p>\n

The name of the pedestrian was not released, but locals said she was a beloved fixture on the block. <\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s known for watering the plans in the summer,\u201d said Jose Martinez, a neighborhood smoke shop employee. \u201cYou would see her every morning with her walker, filling up a little bucket of water to go water her plants. You don\u2019t see that everywhere.<\/p>\n

Police said a 75-year-old woman was killed when scaffolding fell on her and two others were injured in teh freak crash. Robert Mecea<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s not something you see, the care and friendliness for the community,\u201d Martinez added. \u201cThis is just mind-blowing.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 2023 Peterbilt garage truck at the heart of the deadly crash is owned by Classic Recycling in Clifton, New Jersey \u2014 with a company rep telling The Post that the driver had a clean two-year driving record.<\/p>\n

They said the truck was driving under the speed limit and the driver tested negative for drugs and alcohol.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are still gathering information about this tragic accident and are not able to provide any details at this time,\u201d the firm\u2019s spokesperson said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Police said there have been no arrests but the investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The gruesome crash that killed a 75-year-old woman in East Harlem Tuesday was a freak chain-reaction collision involving…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":469508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,5303,34485,5249,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,15513,9366,7207,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-469507","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-car-crashes","10":"tag-east-harlem","11":"tag-manhattan","12":"tag-metro","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-pedestrian-safety","20":"tag-pedestrians","21":"tag-police","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-united-states-of-america","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-us-news","28":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115776616065016912","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469507","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=469507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}