Man killed when car slams into disabled truck — driver slapped with DWI

The accident befell round 11:00 p.m. Friday night.
Seth Gottfried

A 28-year-old man was killed when the automotive he was using in slammed right into a disabled tractor trailer in a single day on the Van Wyck Expressway, police mentioned.

The motive force of the automobile was subsequently arrested and charged with DWI.

The lethal crash befell on the Queens freeway simply south of Jewel Avenue in Kew Gardens at round 11 p.m. Friday, authorities mentioned.

Police responding to a 911 name discovered the 28-year-old within the entrance passenger seat of a 2019 Honda Accord, “unconscious and unresponsive, with physique trauma.”

EMS pronounced the 28-year-old useless on the scene and transported the 31-year-old driver to New York-Presbyterian Queens Hospital, “with complaints of ache,” cops mentioned.

The motive force of the automobile was arrested and charged with a DWI.

Seth Gottfried

The 31-year-old driver was subsequently arrested after the NYPD Collision Investigation Squad decided the Honda Accord had been touring in the appropriate lane of the northbound Van Wyck, when the operator swerved to the appropriate shoulder and rear-ended the disabled 1999 Western Star tractor trailer.

Luis Angamarca, of Queens, was charged with driving whereas means impaired by alcohol and working a motorized vehicle with a blood alcohol content material .08 of 1%, police mentioned.

The 42-year-old male truck driver was additionally taken to New York-Presbyterian Queens in steady situation, police mentioned.

The identification of the sufferer is pending household notification, the NYPD mentioned.