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70 year old pedestrian dies after being struck by SUV in Chinatown, downtown Manhattan

A 70 year old woman was fatally hit by a SUV in Chinatown early this morning. According to the NY Daily news, the SUV driver was waiting at a red light on Elizabeth Street and Canal. When the light turned green, the man started to drive. He didn’t see the…

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A pedestrian was seriously injured by a taxi that jumped the curb in Uptown Manhattan

A pedestrian suffered personal injury after he was hit by a yellow cab on the sidewalk on East 59th Street near Madison Ave in New York yesterday around lunch time. The cab driver lost control of his vehicle, jumped the curb and hit the man before crashing into a building.…

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After trying to rescue her dog that was struck by a car, a woman was struck by a second car in a street in Brooklyn; both drivers left the scene of the accident without stopping

A woman who ran in the street in Brooklyn to try to save her dog that had been run over by a car was struck by another car. The dog died and the 31 year old woman is in critical condition. Both drivers fled and the police are still looking…

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NYPD cop injured in another case of a pedestrian being struck by a bicyclist in New York City

A few weeks after a woman died after being struck by a bike in Central Park, NYC, a NYPD officer was struck by a bicyclist yesterday on the Brooklyn Bridge pedestrian footpath. The officer suffered personal injury and appeared to haver a broken arm. The accident happened yesterday afternoon on…

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Another pedestrian was hit by a car this morning on the Upper West Side of Manhattan causing severe personal injury

Early this morning a female pedestrian was rushed to the hospital after she was struck by a car at the intersection of west 79th street and Broadway (read more in the New York Daily News). Since the beginning of this year numerous pedestrians have suffered personal injury or lost their…

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A pedestrian died from severe head injury after being hit by a reckless cyclist who crashed into her in Central Park, New York

59 year old Jill Tarlov was struck by a cyclist as she was in a crosswalk in Central Park last Thursday.She suffered severe head trauma and was on life support before she passed away this week-end. According to witnesses the cyclist was riding his bike recklessly and was most probably…

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Woman killed by bus as she tried to reach underneath it to pick up her cell phone in Brooklyn, NYC

A pedestrian died in a tragic bus accident yesterday in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York. The woman had just stepped off the B44 bus when she dropped her cell phone. The phone fell under the bus and the woman reached under the bus to get it. The driver who didn’t see…

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