A 63-year-old man was killed Tuesday morning after he crashed his SUV after losing control of the vehicle on a residential block in Jamaica.
The driver was behind the wheel of a 2015 Toyota Rav4 traveling eastbound on 90th Street shortly after 5 a.m. when he jumped the east curb at the intersection of 143rd Street and drove straight into the driveway of a home at 89-25 143rd St., police said. The NYPD Highway District’s Collision Investigation Squad determined that the SUV continued through the driveway before colliding into the detached garage and a parked and unoccupied 2011 Toyota Prius inside the structure. The impact caused the garage to collapse on both vehicles, trapping the Rav4 driver.
Police from the 103rd Precinct in Jamaica responded to a 911 call of a vehicle at the location at 5:21 a.m. and found the injured man inside the vehicle under debris. The FDNY dispatched units to the scene at 5:40 a.m., and first responders worked to extricate him from the wreckage.
EMS transported him to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center in critical condition. He was pronounced dead a short while later, police said, adding that there are no arrests and the investigation remains ongoing by the NYPD Highway District’s Collision Investigation Squad. The identity of the deceased is pending family notification, an NYPD spokesman said Wednesday morning.
The city’s Department of Buildings was called to the scene on Tuesday evening, and inspectors determined that the detached garage had collapsed due to a driver’s impact and that a neighboring two-car garage at 89-23 143rd St. had partially collapsed due to the impact. In the interest of public safety, DOB inspectors issued a full vacate order for the garage at 89-25 143rd St. and a partial vacate order for the right side of the garage at 89-23 143rd St.
