Driver dies after Bronx expressway collision with snowplow
Kevin Thompson, 41, was killed and another motorist was injured in an early-morning crash on the Major Deegan Expressway after police said Thompson drove into the rear of a city Sanitation snowplow near W. 233rd Street.
What We Know
Kevin Thompson, 41, was driving south on the Major Deegan Expressway just after 4 a.m. on Jan. 9, 2022, when police said he drove into the rear of a city Sanitation Department snowplow truck near W. 233rd Street in Kingsbridge. The official crash record lists one motorist killed and one motorist injured, with a sedan and a snowplow traveling south before the collision. The Daily News reported that Thompson, a Morrisania resident, died the next day at St. Barnabas Hospital. The 43-year-old snowplow driver was hospitalized in stable condition and had not been charged, according to police cited by the paper.
Police said the driver rear-ended a city snowplow
Kevin Thompson, 41, was driving a black 2015 Acura TLX south on the Major Deegan Expressway just after 4 a.m. on Jan. 9, 2022, when police said he drove into the rear of a city Sanitation Department snowplow truck.
The official record lists a sedan and a snowplow, both traveling south and going straight ahead before the collision. It records one motorist killed and one motorist injured.
The crash was reported near W. 233rd Street in Kingsbridge
The crash was recorded on the Major Deegan Expressway in the Bronx. Police told the Daily News it happened near W. 233rd Street in Kingsbridge.
Thompson died the next day; the plow driver was hospitalized
The Daily News reported that Thompson, who lived in Morrisania, died a day later at St. Barnabas Hospital. The 43-year-old snowplow driver was hospitalized in stable condition, and police said he had not been charged.