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Bicycle accident prevention in NYC: more protected bike lanes on the way

Following the increase in fatal bicycle accidents in New York City last year the DOT recently announced that New Yorkers would get 30 more miles of protected bike lanes all over the city this year. The de Blasio administration has so far announced that 10 of the 30 miles would…

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3 pedestrians dead and 2 injured in NYC traffic accidents over the weekend

3 pedestrians died and two other were injured after being hit by motor vehicles in New York City over the weekend. Another pedestrian also died from injuries he sustained earlier in the month last Thursday. The police are still looking for the reckless speeding hit and run driver who killed…

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One construction worker died and another one was seriously injured in a building collapse in Queens, NYC

A welder died and another construction worker was seriously injured after a building collapsed on a NYC construction site yesterday. 50 year old David Johnson, a father of two daughters going to college, was working on the demolition of a building located at 147-05 94th Ave in Jamaica, Queens, when…

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Injuries and deaths related to collisions with trains, how to prevent them?

Did you know that 95% of fatal train accidents were caused by vehicles at train crossings and pedestrians on tracks? Every 3 hours in the US someone is hit by a train. Most of these accidents are preventable. According to preliminary Federal Rail Road Administration Statistics, 262 people died and…

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Will the New NYC reckless driving initiative help reduce car accidents fatalities and injuries?

Two years ago one of our clients, actress Ruthie Ann Miles and her five year old daughter were struck by a reckless driver as they were crossing the street in the crosswalk with the light in their favor. The daughter was killed and the actress who was pregnant at the…

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Following the death of a security guard at the construction site of the Central Park Tower, the general contractors sues the NYC DOB and the Office of Administration Trials and Hearings

Two years ago, Harry Ramnauh was crushed to death by a glass panel at a Manhattan construction site. He was a security guard at the construction site of the $3 billion Luxury Central Park Tower which when completed will be the tallest residential building in the world. Reaching 112 floors…

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NYC Pedestrian killed by car backing out of a driveway

A pedestrian died after being rolled over by a car backing out of a driveway in NYC. The accident occurred at 30-23 69th Street in Jackson Heights, Queens around 6:15 pm on February 2nd. The driver of a Honda backed out of his driveway, struck a 57 year old man…

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Cyclist killed by reckless truck driver in Brooklyn

A cyclist was killed in a truck accident in NYC last week. 41 year old Pedro Lopez is the first cyclist to die in a traffic accident in New York City in 2020. He was killed by a reckless truck driver who was making an illegal U-turn at high speed…

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Deadly Car crashes in Long Island and Westchester caused by reckless drivers

Reckless driving caused two people to die in separate car accidents in the New York area at the end of last week. In the first accident, 39 year old Lisettte Quintanilla was driving home with her 8-year-old son when they were rear ended by a speeding drunk driver identified as…

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2 construction workers die after trench collapses in Long Island, NY

2 construction workers died after a trench collapsed in Long Island, NY. The two men were installing a septic tank for a private home located on Wolver Hollow Road in Brookville. They were 30 feet down at the bottom of the excavated area when one of the walls collapsed. Dirt…

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