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An elderly pedestrian died after he was hit by a car that dragged him on the street for half a block in Queens, New York

An 83 year old New Yorker was crossing the street in the middle of the block after parking his car when he was fatally struck by a car. The accident happened in front of his house on 103rd Ave in Queens, NYC. A little after 10;30 pm,m, 83 year old Nfn Locknauth…

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William Rockefeller, the sleep deprived engineer who caused the fatal Metro North Train Accident in New York in December 2013 will not face criminal charges

In December 2013 4 people died and 70 others suffered personal injury in a Metro North train accident in New York. The National Transportation Board Investigation found that William Rockefeller the engineer who was operating the train had undiagnosed sleep apnea and nodded off  just before taking a 30 mph curve…

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Amtrak train was going at more than 100 miles an hour while the speed limit was 50mph before to derail in the curve; the number of death raised to 7 and the number of injuries to more than 200

Preliminary data show that the Amtrak train crash that killed 7 people and injured more than 200 others was related to speeding. The train was traveling at a speed of 106 miles per hour just before the curve (see picture) while it should have been traveling at 50 mph. The…

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Positive Train Control safety features would have prevented the Amtrak train crash as well as the previous Metro North Train accident that happened in New York in 2013

The Rail Safety Improvement Act of 2008 was passed by Congress 1 month after 25 people died in a train crash in L.A.  Investigators found that just before the accident, the train engineer who was texting on his cell phone missed a signal indicating that a freight train was ahead of him on…

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Construction worker dies from head trauma after falling from scaffolding in the Bronx, NYC

Domikick Deluca, a 25 year old construction worker, died after falling from scaffolding yesterday.  The young worker was doing facade work at the Butler Houses on Webster Ave in Claremont in the Bronx when he lost his footing and fell 15 feet . He landed on his head and was transported to the hospital unresponsive…

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6 people dead and more than 100 injured in an Amtrak train accident

An Amtrak train heading from New York to Washington DC derailed yesterday night in Philadelphia. 6 people died and many the 243 passengers of suffered personal injury and were taken to the hospital. Among the people injured 6 of them were in critical condition. The Amtrak accident happened yesterday night…

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Thankfully nobody was injured when a bus from New York exploded on the Massachussets Turnpike

A Boltbus that departed from New York to go to Boston exploded on the Massachusetts Turnpike yesterday during rush hours.  The bus driver noticed smoke coming out of the bus, pulled over and immediately evacuated the 47 passengers with their belongings. Shortly after the bus exploded and caught fire. The…

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Two contractors died in a fuel-tank explosion in Hasting-On-Hudson, NY

Two workers who were trying to remove an underground oil-tank from a backyard died after the tank exploded. One of the workers was sitting on the tank and was cutting into it with a saw when the explosion happened. The blast was so violent that his body was thrown 25 yards away into…

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The FMCSA says that truck drivers with controlled insulin-treated diabetes mellitus (ITDM) don’t pose more of a crash risk than other drivers and proposes a new rule that would allow them to operate in interstate commerce without the inconvenience and added cost of obtaining and maintaining an exemption

If a diabetic truck driver is suddenly impaired by an an episode of hypoglycemia he can potentially loose  control of his vehicle and crash. Hypoglycemia is a condition in which blood glucose drops to a dangerously low concentration and creates symptoms such as blurred vision, shaking, trembling, unclear thinking, fainting, seizure or coma. Too…

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