A bicyclist was fatally struck by a car in NYC on Friday Morning. The bicycle accident happened at the intersection of Classon Avenue and Lexington Avenue in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, New York. The driver was making a left turn from Classon Avenue onto Lexington Avenue when she hit the 34…
Last year Carlos Moncayo died in a construction accident in New York. Moncaya was working on a construction site located at 9-19 Ninth Ave in the meatpacking district in Manhattan where the old Pastis restaurant was turned into a Restoration Hardware Store. The 22 year old construction worker was buried in a pit…
A young mother and her dog were fatally struck by an out of control car in Long Island, NY. 25 year old Skye Brunetti had just dropped her 4 year old boy at school and was walking back home with her dog when a car jumped the curb and fatally…
Last week a pedestrian died in a hit an run accident at the intersection of 21st Street and 3oth Road in Astoria, Queens, NYC. We pointed out in a recent blog related to this accident that the intersection was very dangerous and had no crosswalk. An article in DNA now indicates…
A motorcyclist died after he apparently crashed his bike into a tree in Bay Side, Queens, NYC. According to the the NY Daily News the motorcyclist was found dead on a path in Little Bay Park by a passing bicyclist. His dirt bike landed several feet away on some rocks near the water. The…
Another pedestrian was killed in a car accident in NYC in the 109th precinct. According to Streetblog, this is the third pedestrian to die in this precinct since the beginning of the year. The accident happened Tuesday morning at the crossing of Prince Street and 35th Ave in Flushing, Queens. A 57…
The installation of 140 speed cameras in NYC proved to be a successful way to reduce speeding in school zones and protect residents from fatal car accidents. Today State Sen. Jose Peralta and Assemblyman Michael DenDekker will propose to extend the installation of similar cameras to 2,000 school zones in New York City. The two…
A pedestrian was fatally hit by a car in Manhattan on Friday. The pedestrian was a 76 year old woman who was trying to cross Madison Avenue near 95th street. The car driver was heading north on Madison Avenue when he noticed a parking spot. As he attempted to back…
Decreasing the speed to reduce the number of car accidents resulting in death or serious injury in New York City is one of the top priorities of the Zero Vision Initiative launched by Mayor de Blasio in 2014. Since November 7, 2014, the NYC’s default speed limit has been lowered from 30…
Picture: Peter Bannan on Twitter Two people died and dozen others were injured in an Amtrak train accident that happened between New York and Philadelphia in the NorthEast Corridor yesterday morning. Train 89, also known as the Palmetto, struck a backhoe, killing the operator of the backhoe and an Amtrak supervisor. The train had left New…