Drunken driver arrested after his passenger dies in Queens crash, NYPD says

A Queens man is in cuffs after his passenger was killed in a drunken late-night wreck on the Van Wyck Expressway, cops said Sunday.

Luis Angamarca, 31, was driving a 2019 Honda Accord north on the expressway, near 72nd Ave., just before 11 p.m. Friday when he veered out of the right lane, cops said. He rear-ended a disabled tractor trailer that was stopped in the striped, marked-off area between the roadway and Exit 11, cops said.

Angamarca’s front-seat passenger, a 28-year-old man whose name has not yet been released, was pronounced dead at the scene.

Angamarca, who complained of pain, was taken to New York-Presbyterian Queens Hospital, in stable condition.

He was arrested on drunken driving charges. Police said authorities are awaiting an official cause of death before hitting him with more serious charges.

With Emma Seiwell