Douglaston, Little Neck Roads Make Most Dangerous List

The Tri-State Transportation Campaign has listed two Douglaston streets and another in Little Neck among the most dangerous roadways in Queens.

The pedestrian advocacy group's list provides a rundown of 125 sites in the borough where pedestrians have been killed in the past four years.

On Dec. 11, 2008, an 81-year-old man was killed on Douglaston Parkway near Northern Boulevard, while another 81-year-old man died at 65^th Avenue near 242^nd Street on March 16, 2009.

A 56-year-old man was killed at the Long Island Expressway and 251^st Place in Little Neck on March 4, 2008.

Douglaston Parkway was most recently mentioned at a Douglaston Civic Association meeting as a site of concern for community residents.

111^th Precinct Captain Jason Huerta told the civic that police would conduct enforcement and issue violations to commercial trucks along the road in the near future.

“Those are really problematic locations,” said Community Board 11 Chairman Jerry Iannece of the listed northeast Queens sites. “On Douglaston Parkway, people get caught on camera going through the light. They speed through it to get to the Long Island Expressway. I’m not surprised there have been accidents at that location.”

Iannece said other recent areas of concern include Union Turnpike and Springfield Boulevard and Horace Harding Expressway at Bell Boulevard, both of which are in Bayside.

According to the Tri-State Transportation Campaign, the most dangerous roads in the borough are Jamaica Avenue, Queens Boulevard and Union Turnpike.

To view the campaign’s map of Queens, click here.