Last year 22 year old Carlos Moncayo died in a construction accident in New York. The young worker was crushed to death by a collapsing wall on the site of the former Pastis restaurant in the Meatpacking district, in lower Manhattan, NYC. Prior to the accident, Harco, the contractor, had been…
A man was seriously injured after a piece of plywood from a security fence at a construction site fell on him. The man was walking on the sidewalk at the South East corner of 30th St. and Fifth Avenue in NYC yesterday around 4 PM when the accident happened. An…
A pedestrian was fatally struck by a hit-and-run driver Tuesday night in New York City. According to DNA info the man was intoxicated. He had just come out of a limo and he fell on the ground before being hit by a car. The fatal car accident happened on Jerome Avenue…
Following the fatal collapse of a crane in lower Manhattan last February, Mayor de Blasio and NYC building commissioner Rick Chandler created the Crane Safety Technical Working Group. The mission of this independent group of experts was to assess actual New York crane safety regulations and provide a set of recommendations…
A few weeks after a bicyclist died after being intentionally hit by a car in Brooklyn, NYC, another enraged car driver chased a bicyclist in a Brooklyn protected bike lane and tried to intentionally run over him. The incident happened last Thursday night on Kent Ave. Two friends where riding…
A pedestrian died after being hit by a car in NYC. The accident happened early Monday morning a little bit before 1:00 am. The 22 year old man had just stolen beers at a Bodega in the Bronx and was running across Bruckner Boulevard near 149th street. He was struck by…
A pedestrian was fatally struck by a car as he was walking along a Queens Highway . The accident occurred Friday night around 11:30 p.m. on the left shoulder of the Van Wyck Expressway heading north near the Liberty Avenue exit. The unidentified man was fatally struck by a Lexus sedan. The…
A man in his 70s suffered serious injury after being struck by a tractor-trailer truck in Queens, NYC. The man was crossing Jamaica Ave. near 168th Street around noon when he was hit by a dairy truck. His legs got pinned under the wheels and were severely mangled. An airbag was used…
20 people died and dozens suffered personal injury after two trains collided head-on on a single track. The accident took place in Corato, near Bari in Italy. The two trains that collided belong to a local private rail company, Ferrotramviaria SpA. The company operates around 20 electrical trains in the region.…
An eight year old boy died from his injuries after accidentally drowning in the swimming pool of a cruise ship that had just left New York and was heading to the Caribbeans. Prince Andepoju from Maryland, was a passenger abroad the Royal Caribbean’s Anthem of the Seas that had just left…