Box truck driver fled fatal crash near JFK, police said.
Police said a box truck driver hit U Fo Ng's parked Honda CRV near JFK and fled; the official record lists one motorist killed in a crash dated March 31, 2024.
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What We Know
Police said a driver in an eastbound box truck hit the Honda CRV U Fo Ng had parked on the Nassau Expressway shoulder near the JFK Expressway exit and left the scene. QNS reported that the driver failed to navigate the roadway; Patch described the driver drifting off the road. Ng, 68, was taken to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center and pronounced dead, QNS reported. The official record places the crash at Nassau Expressway and Kennedy Expressway on March 31, 2024, at 5:39 a.m.; the April 1 articles describe a Sunday afternoon crash around 1:30 p.m. Police said there were no arrests and the investigation was ongoing when the reports were published.
Police accounts differ on how the truck left the roadway.
QNS reported that police said the eastbound box truck driver failed to navigate the roadway; Patch reported that police said the driver drifted off the road. Both reports say the driver hit Ng's Honda CRV, which was parked on the shoulder, and left the scene.
The official record places the crash at Nassau Expressway and Kennedy Expressway on March 31, 2024, at 5:39 a.m. Both articles, published April 1, describe a Sunday afternoon crash around 1:30 p.m., so the reported times differ.
The articles describe the scene as the Nassau Expressway near the JFK Expressway exit. The official record names Nassau Expressway and Kennedy Expressway.
Ng was taken to Jamaica Hospital.
QNS identified U Fo Ng, 68, as a Manhattan resident from East Broadway on the Lower East Side. Police found him unconscious and unresponsive, and EMS took him to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, QNS reported. The official record lists one motorist killed and no other injuries.
The vehicle descriptions do not align across the record.
Both articles describe Ng's vehicle as a Honda CRV and the other vehicle as a box truck. The official vehicle entries classify the vehicles as a station wagon/SUV and a box truck, while the collision-level vehicle-type field says sedan; the record does not reconcile these classifications.
Police said the investigation remained open.
Both April 1 reports said no arrests had been made and the investigation was ongoing. QNS identified the NYPD Highway District Collision Investigation Squad as investigating the crash.
Where
NASSAU EXPRESSWAY and KENNEDY EXPRESSWAY