A 22 year old man was severely injured in a car accident in New York City. The young man was struck by a car at the intersection of Dry Harbor Road and Woodhaven Blvd in Queens (see Gooogle map picture) last Friday morning around 4:4o am. The driver who hit him…
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Should New York patients be worried about hospital negligence?
New York hospitals are among the worst in the country according to a new analysis by the Empire Center based on ratings just released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Patients looking for a hospital can now go to the Medicare.gov website and compare the quality of care of hospitals in the…
Speeding hit and run driver kills two pedestrians in Brooklyn, NYC
2 pedestrians were killed in a car accident in New York City last night. The driver who struck them is still at large. A little bit after midnight last night 41 year old Delman Maldonado and 56 year old Isreal Turcios were crossing the street at the intersection of Fulton…
Hit and Run driver pleads guilty in NYC pedestrian death
A man who killed a pedestrian on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, NYC, on New Years Eve, 2014, pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death and driving without a license. 30 year old Prezidor Porbeni, an undocumented immigrant from Nigeria was driving on the…
Pedestrian injured in New York car accident
A pedestrian was injured on Wednesday in Manhattan after two cars collided and one of them careened into the woman who was crossing the street. The accident occurred around 10:00 am in Gramercy. The woman in her 40 was crossing the intersection of Avenue of the Americas and 19th street (google…
New York Landlord charged after putting family at risk of dangerous injury
A greedy Harlem landlord put a family at risk of serious injury or death while starting to demolish a building while they were still living there. Ephraim Vashovsky tried to evict all tenants to pull the building out of rent stabilization. He almost succeeded but a large family of undocumented Mexicans who had…
The third “Bicycle safe passage” operation is on this week in New York City
Bicyclists riding in New York City have an increased risk of being injured or dying in a bike accident when a car or a truck is blocking their bike lane. The cyclists have to merge into traffic to pass the vehicle blocking the bike lane therefore increasing their risk of being struck…
NYC bicyclist critically injured after colliding with car
A man was critically injured in a bike accident in New York City last night. The accident occurred at the intersection of Sixth Ave and 22nd Street in Greenwood Brooklyn, NYC (see Google map picture on the left) . According to the driver of the car who was interviewed by the NY Daily…
Pedestrian killed in NYC car accident
A 26 year old pedestrian was killed by a car in New York City early Sunday morning. Terence Montrose was walking on Rockaway Point Boulevard a little bit after midnight. A minivan traveling in the same direction struck him from behind. The young man was transported to the hospital but he…
Potential NYC hospital negligence after patient dies from Sepsis
A man died from Sepsis after being treated at the Elmhurst hospital in New York City. More investigation will be necessary to determine if the hospital committed medical malpractice. The patient, 59 year old Antonio Flores, showed up at the emergency room of the hospital on July 7th after sustaining a minor…