For the second time in less than a week, a motorist was struck and killed after getting out of their vehicle where the Clearview Expressway merges with the Long Island Expressway in Bayside.
The latest fatal collision occurred on the morning of Tuesday, Dec. 24, after a Rego Park man was involved in a crash at around 8:50 a.m. near the northbound ramp of the Clearview Expressway at the westbound entrance to the LIE.
Further investigation by the NYPD’s Highway District Collision Investigation Squad determined that Arsen Aranov, 56, of 63rd Road, was behind the wheel of a Hyundai Sonata when a 39-year-old woman driving a Mercedes-Benz GLS459 crashed into his car.
When both motorists exited their vehicles to inspect damages, a Chevrolet Equinox, driven by a 24-year-old woman, struck Aronov, pinning him between the vehicles. Police from the 111th Precinct in Bayside extricated him. EMS rushed him to New York-Presbyterian Queens Hospital in critical condition and pronounced dead a short while later.
The two women remained at the scene and were not injured, police said Thursday. There have been no arrests, and the NYPD‘s Highway District Collision Investigation Squad investigation remains ongoing.
The fatal collision occurred six days after a 65-year-old Glen Cove man was behind the wheel of a Ford F-550 Super Duty Rack Truck when it became disabled just after 5 a.m., and he pulled over on the westbound shoulder near Exit 27 to the Clearview Expressway. He got out to inspect his vehicle and was standing alongside it when the 60-year-old operator of a white Peterbilt flatbed truck heading towards the exit smashed into the rear left corner of the disabled truck, causing it to strike the 65-year-old man, according to an NYPD spokesman.
EMS pronounced him dead at the scene.
