Driver dies after a collision with a stopped truck on Bronx I-95.
Edwin Seixas, 40, died after he collided with a truck left unoccupied following an earlier crash near Baychester Avenue on the New England Thruway at about 10:20 p.m. on Oct. 16, 2024, police said; the official crash record counts one motorist killed.
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What We Know
Police said Edwin Seixas, 40, of Norwalk, Connecticut, was driving south when he collided with a truck left unoccupied after an earlier crash. The Hour reported the truck was stopped in the left lane and partly blocking the center lane. Norwood News described it as a tractor-trailer; News 12 Bronx called it a flatbed truck.
A southbound driver encountered a truck left unoccupied after an earlier crash.
Police said Seixas was traveling south when he collided with a truck left unoccupied after an earlier collision. The Daily News reported that the truck's driver had just been in another collision; the official record lists the truck as parked and unoccupied.
Norwood News, citing police, identified the vehicle Seixas drove as a 2016 Dodge Journey and the other vehicle as a 2018 tractor-trailer. News 12 Bronx described the other vehicle as a flatbed truck. The official record classifies Seixas's vehicle as a station wagon/SUV and the truck as a 2018 diesel tractor truck.
The collision happened near Baychester Avenue.
Police placed the crash on the southbound New England Thruway portion of I-95 near Baychester Avenue in the East Bronx. The Hour reported that the stopped truck was in the left lane and partly blocked the center lane.
Police identified the driver as Edwin Seixas.
Police identified Seixas, 40, as a Norwalk, Connecticut, resident. Norwood News and News 12 Bronx reported that EMS took him to Jacobi Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead; the Daily News reported that he was taken there but could not be saved.
Norwood News reported on Oct. 23 that the NYPD Highway District's Collision Investigation Squad investigation was ongoing.