Driver unloading dumpster in fatal Bayside crash
A driver backing a dump truck at 42-32 191st St. in Queens on Jan. 24, 2022, was unloading a construction dumpster when a 32-year-old man suffered fatal head trauma, police told QNS.
What We Know
A 32-year-old pedestrian was killed at 42-32 191st St. in Queens on Jan. 24, 2022. The city crash record lists a dump truck backing west, and QNS reported that police found the man unconscious and unresponsive with head trauma after a 911 call. Police said a construction dumpster was being unloaded in a residential driveway when its loading door opened and the man suffered severe head trauma. Department of Buildings inspectors determined the man had been walking from the rear yard of a neighboring property. The vehicle operator stayed at the scene, police said.
A dumpster was being unloaded in a driveway
The crash happened at about 10:28 a.m. on Jan. 24, 2022, outside 42-32 191st St. in Queens. The city crash record lists one pedestrian killed and a dump truck that was backing west before the crash.
QNS reported that officers responding to a 911 call found a 32-year-old man unconscious and unresponsive with head trauma. Police said a construction dumpster was being unloaded in the driveway of a residential home when its loading door opened and the man suffered severe head trauma.
Police and city inspectors described the victim’s path
Department of Buildings inspectors and forensic engineers determined that the man had been walking from the rear yard of a neighboring property when he was fatally injured. EMS pronounced him dead at the scene, according to the NYPD account reported by QNS.
Police said the vehicle operator remained at the scene, and the NYPD Highway District’s Collision Investigation Squad was investigating.
The crash happened on 191st Street in Bayside
CrashCountNYC location context places the fatal crash at 42-32 191st St. in Queens.
Across 191st Street in Queens, CrashCountNYC recorded 105 crashes, 73 injuries, 4 serious injuries and 1 death from the start of 2022 through June 1, 2026.
DOB found illegal work but separated it from the fatality
QNS reported that the Department of Buildings determined the fatality was not construction-related and not within the department’s jurisdiction.
DOB inspectors found that the home where the incident occurred had undergone extensive gut demolition without DOB approvals and permits. The department issued a full stop-work order and violations to the owner for illegal work without a permit, failure to maintain the property, and failure to maintain proper housekeeping; a DOB spokesman said those enforcement actions were related to the unpermitted demolition work, not the fatal incident outside the home.