Blima Friedman died and her pregnant mother suffered personal injury after they were hit by a 22 year old driver who was working as a valet parker yesterday night around 9 pm in Brooklyn. The two pedestrians were crossing 60th street midblock between 17th Ave and 18th Ave when the…
22 year old Irina Danilyuk was hospitalized in critical condition after her car burst into fire following an accident during which she first hit a car and then a tree while driving drunk on the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn, NYC. The young woman suffers from multiple injuries including cuts to…
A van driver who was fleeing from the police crashed into a car occupied by 50 year old Nancy Lawrence and her 18 year old daughter. The mother was seriously injured while the daughter who was sitting in the passenger seat, is in critical condition. The accident happened yesterday in…
Personal injuries related to traffic accidents in NYC gradually declined so far this year compared to last year while deaths related to traffic accidents were mostly stable as analyzed in our previous blog. Pedestrian injuries have significantly decreased over the summer while bicycle accident injuries stayed stable. The graph below…
Sequence of events in car-pedestrian accident: Source Wikipedia. At least 4 pedestrians were struck by vehicles in 4 different accidents yesterday in New York City according to the the NY Daily News. One of them, 34 year old Latchman Singh died from his injuries at the hopsital. He was hit…
A 19 year old driver and his two passengers were in serious condition after they rear ended a tractor trailer in Queens, NYC early Friday morning. The accident happened on Astoria Bvd near 111th street, an intersection prone to car crashes according to the NY daily News
An NYC taxi driver and his passenger suffered personal injury after an explosion caused a manhole to fly in the air and strike the taxi on Lexington near 44th street in Manhattan early Monday morning. The impact damaged the doors and the windshield of the taxi. A good Samaritan pulled…
Christopher Sallay, a partner at NYC Personal Injury Law Firm Gair, Gair, Conason, Rubinowitz, Bloom, Hershenhorn, Steigman & Mackauf is representing Juan Rosario who lost his wife and two children in a car accident in which a van plunged of the Bronx River Parkway viaduct into an unoccupied part of…
A young pedestrian was seriously injured in an accident during which he was struck and trapped under a NYPD School Safety Van which was traveling south on Coney Island Ave. The driver, a school safety agent, swerved to avoid a car which was making a left turn Northbound and hit…
One person was critically injured, 3 other people were seriously injured and two other people sustained minor injuries in a violent car crash which happened early in the morning on the FDR Drive in Manhattan, NYC. The crash was caused by a wrong way driver who was travelling southbound in…