{"id":799541,"date":"2026-05-16T02:07:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T02:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/799541\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T02:07:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T02:07:13","slug":"2-dead-3-critical-after-driver-crashes-into-pedestrians-on-upper-west-side-nypd-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/799541\/","title":{"rendered":"2 dead, 3 critical after driver crashes into pedestrians on Upper West Side, NYPD says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people are dead and three others are in critical condition after a driver lost control and struck pedestrians on a sidewalk in New York City, according to police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD said the crash happened at 6 p.m. Friday at 109th St. and Amsterdam Ave. on Manhattan&#8217;s Upper West Side.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police said it appeared to be an accident, not an intentional act, but the investigation was ongoing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NYPDnews\/status\/2055421063639486934\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">warned<\/a> drivers to &#8220;expect heavy traffic and emergency vehicle presence in the vicinity.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/uws-multiple-peds-struck-ag-hi-res-still-20-30-4202.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"uws-multiple-peds-struck-ag-hi-res-still-20-30-4202.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  The crash happened at West 109th St. and Amsterdam Ave.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                CBS News New York<\/p>\n<p>Please stay with CBS News New York for updates on this developing story.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people are dead and three others are in critical condition after a driver lost control and struck&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":799542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,5249,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,36246,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-799541","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-manhattan","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkcity","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-upper-west-side","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116581816496560834","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799541","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=799541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}