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Anthony Dickson is charged with vehicular manslaughter after a Grand Central Parkway crash.
ABC7 New York reported that Anthony Dickson, 34, of Brooklyn, is charged with vehicular manslaughter and driving while ability impaired by drugs. Police say a Honda he was driving overturned on the westbound Grand Central Parkway in Astoria about 4:07 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 4, 2026, and that passenger Arianna Arregui, 23, was ejected and died.
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Vehicular-manslaughter and impaired-driving counts are accusations. They are not a finding that Dickson was impaired, and they are not a finding that he caused a death. ABC7 New York and NBC New York reported he was arrested after a Sunday crash on the Grand Central Parkway that killed Arianna Arregui. The charges are what police filed.
ABC7 New York reported Monday, Oct. 5, 2026, that Anthony Dickson, 34, of Brooklyn, has been charged with vehicular manslaughter and driving while ability impaired by drugs. Investigators said he was driving a Honda that lost control on the westbound Grand Central Parkway near the Steinway Street overpass in Astoria around 4:07 a.m. Sunday. The vehicle struck a guardrail, hit a light pole, and overturned. NBC New York reported the NYPD described the car as a gray Honda Accord, put the crash at about 4 a.m., and said he struck a wall and then a light pole. A charging decision is what police say they did. It is not a judgment.
Police said Arianna Arregui, 23, was riding in the rear seat and was ejected onto the roadway, ABC7 New York reported. She was taken to Elmhurst Hospital with severe injuries and later pronounced dead. NBC New York reported both Dickson and Arregui had Brooklyn addresses, that he was arrested a short time after the crash, and that three other passengers did not suffer major injuries. ABC7 reported Dickson was not hurt. ABC7 also reported that police first described a second vehicle and later determined the Honda was the only vehicle involved. That correction is part of the police account. It does not decide the counts.
ABC7 New York reported Arregui was a Brooklyn College graduate. The New York Post, which spelled her first name Arrianna, reported she graduated this year with a bachelor's degree in biology, and that Dickson's arraignment was still pending Monday. A diploma is background on the person who died. It is not an element of the charge. The counts stay accusations until a court enters a judgment. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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