A mother died and her daughter was seriously injured in a car accident in New York City yesterday. The 41-year-old woman was riding in a car driven by her husband. She and Her 9-year-old daughter were sitting in the backseat. A 71-year-old man was riding in the car with them…
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One pedestrian dead and 3 others injured by drunk driving off duty NYPD officer
A drunk off duty cop killed a pedestrian and injured 3 others in Brooklyn, NYC, Sunday around 3:00 am. 21 year old Andrew Esquivel (photo ), a MIT student interning in New York for the summer , was walking home when he was hit by an out of control car…
NY Contractor responsible for construction worker death should get maximum sentence says DA Vance
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…
Passerby seriously injured in New York construction accident
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…
Pedestrian killed by hit-and-run driver in the Bronx, and Lacey
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…
How to better prevent crane accidents in New York?
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…
Reckless NYC driver chases bicyclist on protected bike lane
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…
NYC pedestrian fatally struck by car after stealing beers from Bodega
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…
Pedestrian dies in NYC car accident
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…
Elderly pedestrian injured in NYC truck accident
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…