Hit-and-run driver fatally hits woman at Queens intersection
A driver in a westbound sedan fatally hit 47-year-old Lucia Grant near North Conduit Avenue and 150th Street in Queens at about 6 a.m. Nov. 23, then left the scene, according to city crash data and police accounts cited by local news.
What We Know
A driver in a sedan was traveling west on North Conduit Avenue at about 6:04 a.m. when the driver fatally hit Lucia Grant, 47, at 150th Street in Queens. Police accounts cited by local news said Grant was crossing the intersection and the driver left the scene. EMS took her to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, where she died. City crash data lists lighting defects as a contributing factor and records that Grant was crossing against the signal; press accounts focused on the hit-and-run investigation and reported no arrests as of Nov. 26.
A driver left after the fatal impact.
The city record places the crash at North Conduit Avenue and 150th Street at 6:04 a.m. on Nov. 23, 2024, and lists one pedestrian killed. The record describes a westbound sedan going straight before the crash.
Police accounts cited by local news identified the pedestrian as Lucia Grant, 47, and said she was crossing the intersection when a hit-and-run driver hit her. EMS took Grant to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, where she died.
North Conduit Avenue and 150th Street sit on a dangerous corridor.
All accounts and the city record place the crash at North Conduit Avenue and 150th Street in Queens. News coverage described the area in different neighborhood terms, including South Jamaica, Springfield Gardens near JFK Airport, and Kew Gardens Hills, while also noting nearby Baisley Pond Park.
CrashCountNYC’s Crash Finder recorded 843 crashes, 539 injuries, 29 serious injuries, and 3 deaths on 150th Street in Queens from the start of 2022 through June 1, 2026.
Lucia Grant’s family described a year of loss before the crash.
The Daily News reported that Grant worked as a home health aide and had been living at a Holiday Inn near the intersection after a fire destroyed her Bronx apartment and displaced her family. Her daughter, Chassidy Moore, said the family had been trying to rebuild and was planning birthdays and Thanksgiving together.
QNS reported that a family friend set up a GoFundMe account to help pay for Grant’s funeral and memorial.
Records and police accounts point to lighting, signal, and hit-and-run issues.
City crash data lists lighting defects as a contributing factor and records that Grant was crossing against the signal at the intersection. The same city record lists the sedan’s front center as the point of impact and area of damage.
Police accounts cited by QNS said Grant was attempting to cross North Conduit Avenue from north to south when the driver was traveling west and left the scene. QNS reported on Nov. 26 that police had made no arrests and that the Highway District Collision Investigation Squad continued to investigate.