20-Year-Old Driver Dies in Clearview Expressway Crash
A 20-year-old driver was killed and one motorist was injured on the Clearview Expressway in Queens on Oct. 16, 2022, after police said the driver sped, lost control and hit a guardrail and a tree near exit 4.
What We Know
On Oct. 16, 2022, a 20-year-old man driving a 2007 Honda Accord north on the Clearview Expressway in Queens died in a single-sedan crash. The city crash record lists the crash at 2:05 a.m.; police told the New York Post it happened at 2:18 a.m. near exit 4 and 73rd Avenue. Police said the driver was traveling at a high rate of speed when he lost control, hit the center guardrail, crossed the lanes and hit a tree on the right shoulder. The driver was pronounced dead at the scene, and a male passenger in his 20s was taken to New York Presbyterian Hospital in critical condition with head and body trauma. The official record lists unsafe speed and unsafe lane changing as contributing factors.
A high-speed crash before dawn
The official record places the crash at 2:05 a.m. on Oct. 16, 2022, on the Clearview Expressway; police told the New York Post it happened at 2:18 a.m. near exit 4.
Police said the 20-year-old man was driving a 2007 Honda Accord north at a high rate of speed when he lost control, hit the center guardrail, crossed the travel lanes to the right shoulder and hit a tree.
The driver died, and his passenger was critically injured
The driver, a 20-year-old man, was pronounced dead at the scene. The city crash record also lists one injured motorist.
The Post reported that the passenger was a man in his 20s and was taken to New York Presbyterian Hospital with head and body trauma in critical condition.
On the Clearview Expressway near 73rd Avenue
The crash happened on the Clearview Expressway in Queens. Police described the scene as northbound near exit 4 and near 73rd Avenue; the official record gives coordinates on the expressway.
Police and city records describe a 2007 Honda sedan
The official record lists a 2007 Honda sedan with two occupants, traveling north and changing lanes before the crash; the Post, citing police, identified it as a 2007 Honda Accord. The city vehicle record lists damage including left-side and quarter-panel damage and notes the sedan was demolished.
Speed was cited in both accounts
The official crash record lists unsafe speed for the collision, and the sedan record lists unsafe speed and unsafe lane changing. Police also described the Honda as traveling at a high rate of speed before the driver lost control.