Pickup driver Quinn Daly charged after cyclist's death in Queens
Riding to Work
At about 10 a.m. on Jan. 20, pickup driver Quinn Daly turned right at Sanford Avenue and 160th Street in Flushing and hit Xi Zheng, a 48-year-old cyclist who died at a hospital.
Location reported in Open Data.
What We Know
On Jan. 20, 2026, pickup driver Quinn Daly, 23, turned right from 160th Street onto Sanford Avenue in Flushing and hit Xi Zheng, 48, who was riding west. The official record places the crash at 10:02 a.m. Medics took Zheng to NewYork-Presbyterian Queens, where he died. Zheng's nephew said he was biking to work, as he often did. Daly stayed at the scene. Police arrested him on May 7 and charged him with misdemeanor failure to yield to a pedestrian; Zheng's family said the charge was too lenient.
The turn and the collision
Police accounts reported by the Daily News say Daly, 23, was driving a Ford F-150 south on 160th Street when he turned right onto Sanford Avenue and hit Zheng, who was riding west. The official record places the crash at 10:02 a.m. on Jan. 20, 2026.
Medics took Zheng to NewYork-Presbyterian Queens, where he was pronounced dead. Daly remained at the scene.
A turn across Sanford Avenue
The crash happened at Sanford Avenue and 160th Street in Flushing, blocks from Zheng's home on 163rd Street. Streetsblog reported that drivers approaching south on 160th Street face a stop sign, while Sanford Avenue has a westbound, unprotected bike lane. Its account says Zheng had the right of way.
Xi Zheng was on his way to work
Zheng was 48 and the father of a son and daughter. His nephew Jacky Huang said Zheng was biking to work that morning. "He always biked to work," Huang told the Daily News.
After Zheng's death, his niece Maggie Huang said the family wanted justice and was working with authorities.
An arrest months later
Police made no arrest immediately after the crash. On May 7, they arrested Daly and charged him with misdemeanor failure to yield to a pedestrian, according to the Daily News. Zheng was riding a bicycle.
Zheng's family said the charge was too lenient. "I don't think that's fair," his nephew Hui Huang told the Daily News.