According to court filings, Nader Galal, a Queens resident, was traveling northbound on Third Avenue on September 9, 2025, when he stopped at a red light at the East 40th Street intersection. Teimuraz Saliashvili, a driver employed by the Georgia Mission, was allegedly operating a 2022 Lexus with diplomatic plates behind another vehicle, a 2021 Tesla driven by Eric Xiao Kang and owned by Zongmin Zhou.