24 cyclists, 116 pedestrians, 17 motor vehicle passengers and 57 drivers were killed in 209,291 auto accidents in New York City in 2019. The total number of accidents recorded last year was significantly lower than the 3 previous years during which it was above 227,000 however traffic fatalities were higher…
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Another child pedestrian was killed by a reckless driver in East New York
A 7 year old male pedestrian was fatally struck by a car in New York City on Thursday. Payson Lott was walking to school with his mom. They were in the crosswalk with the light in their favor at the intersection of Blake Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue when a Jeep…
Construction workers badly affected by the opioid crisis
65 construction workers died from unintentional overdose while on the job in the US in 2018 compared to respectively 48, 32, 27, 18, 17, 7 and 7 in 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012 and 2011. These deaths represent more than a quarter of the 305 overdose fatalities at workplaces…
Research Is Needed to Evaluate the Use of Restraints on Children in Out-of-Home Care Settings
Using seclusion and restraints on children can result in injury and liability, however in some last resort cases seclusion and restraint might be necessary to protect children or others. There is too little information available as how frequently the use of seclusion or restraint occur in out-of-home care settings such…
10 year old girl fatally struck by a school bus in Brooklyn NYC
A 10 year old girl was fatally struck by a school bus in New York City. The accident occured yesterday morning at 6:45 am at the intersection of Crescent Street and Wortman Avenue in the East New York area. 10 year old Patience Heaven Albert was walking to school with…
Two other pedestrians killed in NYC car accidents on Sunday and Monday
On Monday we wrote about the death of 3 pedestrians over the weekend and now we learned that two additional female pedestrians died after being struck by cars in New York City on Sunday and Monday. Since last Thursday, NYC recorded one pedestrian death everyday and two on Sunday. This…
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…
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…
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…
Looking back at 2019 high profile construction accidents and what can be done to prevent similar tragedies
The crane accident that killed 4 people at a Google office project in Seattle and the collapse of the Hard Rock Hotel project that resulted in 3 deaths were among the most horrendous construction accidents that occur last year in the US. While these major tragedies were all over the…