A 56-year-old man was killed early Tuesday morning after getting caught in the middle of two vehicles that collided in Queens — one of which fled the scene.
Police say the man, whose identity is being withheld pending family notification, was crossing the street at Kissena Boulevard and Horace Harding Expressway in Flushing just before 12:30 a.m. when two vehicles in his vicinity — a Honda Accord traveling south on Kissena and a U-Haul truck heading west on Horace Harding — collided, and he was caught in the middle.
EMS pronounced the 56-year-old man deceased on the scene, while the 42-year-old man driving the Honda was taken to nearby New York-Presbyterian Queens Hospital in stable condition. The driver and passenger in the U-Haul, however, fled the scene and have not been caught.
The NYPD recorded 39 hit-and-run incidents in the first two quarters of this year, the majority of which remain unsolved, according to its quarterly leaving-the-scene reports.
Traffic collisions killed 158 people across the five boroughs in 2024 through Aug. 18, according to the NYPD. Fatal crashes are down about 25% in Queens this year.
