SUV driver fatally hits moped rider in Astoria
A 22-year-old driver in a 2019 Subaru Forester hit Antonio Hernandez-Bazan as he rode a moped through 37th Street and 23rd Avenue in Astoria, police said, and the city crash record lists traffic control disregarded.
What We Know
Antonio Hernandez-Bazan, 39, was riding a moped east on 23rd Avenue just before 3 a.m. on July 7, 2025, when police said a 22-year-old driver in a 2019 Subaru Forester, traveling north on 37th Street, hit him at the Astoria intersection. EMS took Hernandez-Bazan to Elmhurst Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The city crash record lists one motorist killed, no other injuries, and traffic control disregarded as a contributing factor. Police said the Subaru driver and a 21-year-old passenger stayed at the scene and refused medical attention, and that no arrests had been made while the NYPD Highway District Collision Investigation Squad continued investigating.
Police said the drivers met in the Astoria intersection before dawn
The crash happened at about 2:48 a.m. on July 7, 2025, at 37th Street and 23rd Avenue in Queens. Police told local news outlets that Antonio Hernandez-Bazan was riding a moped east on 23rd Avenue when a 22-year-old driver in a 2019 Subaru Forester, traveling north on 37th Street, hit him.
The official crash record lists the other vehicle as a station wagon or sport utility vehicle and records the moped and the SUV as both going straight before the crash.
Antonio Hernandez-Bazan died after severe head trauma
Police identified the moped rider as Antonio Hernandez-Bazan, 39, of Jamaica, Queens. Responding officers found him on the roadway with severe head trauma, and EMS took him to Elmhurst Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The official record describes the person killed as the 39-year-old male driver of the moped and records no other injuries in the crash.
The city record cites traffic control disregarded
The city crash record lists traffic control disregarded as a contributing factor for the crash. In the vehicle-level data, that factor is attached to the moped driver, along with driver inattention or distraction.
The reviewed news reports did not describe the traffic control device or state which driver police believed violated it, and they reported that the NYPD investigation was continuing.
The Subaru driver stayed at the scene
Police said the 22-year-old Subaru driver and a 21-year-old woman who was a passenger stayed at the scene and refused medical attention.
Local reports said no arrests had been made after the crash and that the NYPD Highway District Collision Investigation Squad was investigating.
Where
37th St & 23rd Ave, Queens