Police recorded 189 crashes on Myrtle Avenue, Queens, between 2023 and 2025, with 116 people injured. That places it #36 among 1,304 Queens streets with at least two crashes a year, and it carried 0.3% of the borough's recorded crashes.
Police recorded 74 crashes on this street in 2025, up 17% from 2024. So far in 2026 (through October 31, 2026), 55 crashes have been recorded.
Crashes on Myrtle Avenue by year
| Year | Crashes | Injured | Killed | Pedestrians injured | Cyclists injured |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (so far) | 55 | 34 | 0 | 11 | 1 |
| 2025 | 74 | 46 | 0 | 12 | 4 |
| 2024 | 63 | 40 | 0 | 10 | 8 |
| 2023 | 52 | 30 | 0 | 4 | 8 |
| 2022 | 66 | 36 | 1 | 8 | 5 |
| 2021 | 73 | 45 | 0 | 9 | 7 |
Intersections along Myrtle Avenue
The intersection with the most crashes along it was Myrtle Avenue & Woodhaven Boulevard, with 31 crashes in the same period.
Injuries and who was hurt
There were 61 injuries for every 100 crashes on Myrtle Avenue, above the Queens rate of 56.
Pedestrians accounted for 25% of injuries on Myrtle Avenue, cyclists for 20% and vehicle occupants for 55%. No deaths were recorded in this period.
| Road user | Injured | Share of injured | Killed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pedestrians | 26 | 25% | 0 |
| Cyclists | 20 | 20% | 0 |
| Motorists (drivers and passengers) | 56 | 55% | 0 |
What police say caused the crashes
Police named a specific contributing factor in 73% of crashes on Myrtle Avenue. Failure to Yield Right-of-Way led the list, at 36% of crashes with a known factor, followed by driver inattention/distraction and passing too closely.
ZIP codes this street crosses
Crashes on Myrtle Avenue by ZIP code, 2023–2025.
How to read these figures
Each figure counts crashes that an NYPD officer reported on the MV-104AN form, which is required when someone is injured or killed or when damage reaches $1,000. One crash can injure several people, so injuries can exceed crashes.
Police do not record the borough or ZIP code for every crash — about 23% of crashes citywide in the same years have no borough — so local totals are a floor, not an exact count. The contributing factor is the one listed for the first vehicle in the report.
Street names in police reports are typed by hand. We merge common spellings (for example "Ave" and "Avenue"), but some crashes on this street may be filed under a variant we could not match.
Source: NYPD crash reports published by NYC Open Data (Motor Vehicle Collisions – Crashes). Data through October 31, 2026. Figures are preliminary and may change. How we calculate these figures.