Box-truck driver dies weeks after Horace Harding crash
Diego Delgado, 63, died after a May 24 collision at Horace Harding Expressway and College Point Boulevard; police told QNS he collided with the rear of a tractor-trailer stopped at a red light.
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What We Know
Diego Delgado, 63, was driving a box truck when he collided with the rear of a tractor-trailer, QNS reported, citing NYPD investigators. They said the other driver, a 28-year-old man, had stopped at a red light after exiting the Long Island Expressway onto College Point Boulevard. Delgado became pinned inside his truck. EMS took him to New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Queens, where he died June 9, QNS reported. The official record lists the collision at 1:15 p.m.; QNS says it happened just after 2 p.m. Police said the other driver was not injured.
Police described a rear-end collision
NYPD investigators told QNS that a 28-year-old man had exited the Long Island Expressway onto College Point Boulevard and stopped his 2012 Mack tractor-trailer at a red light on Horace Harding Expressway. They said Delgado, driving a 2004 Nissan box truck, collided with the rear of the tractor-trailer and became pinned inside his truck.
The official record classifies the vehicles as a box truck and a diesel tractor truck. It lists both as traveling west, with the tractor truck stopped in traffic and the box truck going straight. QNS identifies the tractor-trailer as a 2012 Mack.
The collision happened at a Queens intersection
The official record places the May 24, 2022 collision at Harding Expressway and College Point Boulevard. QNS calls the road Horace Harding Expressway. The sources differ on the time: the official record lists 1:15 p.m., while QNS says just after 2 p.m.
Delgado lived in Kew Gardens Hills
QNS identified Diego Delgado, 63, as a Kew Gardens Hills resident who lived on 77th Avenue.
Delgado died after being taken to a hospital
QNS reported that responding officers found Delgado with trauma to his body. EMS took him to New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Queens, where he died on June 9, according to police cited by QNS. Police said the other driver was not injured. The official crash record counts one person killed and no people injured.