When the injury or the death of a child may have been caused by abuse or neglect, Child Protective Services (CPS) send investigators to discover and examine the facts that led to the incident so as to establish the truth. Unfortunately investigators sometimes commit legal mistakes that can have dire consequences.…
Between six and ten people were injured in New York after the East River Ferry experienced a hard landing at Pier 11 in Wall Street. The accident happened yesterday a little after 5:30 pm. There were 36 people on board when the accident happened. Most passengers were not injured and refused medical…
A 64 year old man died in a truck accident in New York City yesterday morning. The man apparently suffered a heart attack and lost control of the truck he was driving. The accident happened early Monday morning around 6:30 am. Frederick Harris of Westminster was driving north on Francis…
A female pedestrian suffered severe injury after being struck by a car in New York yesterday afternoon. The woman was standing on a sidewalk at the intersection of East 49th Street and Second Avenue in Manhattan, NYC, when an out of control driver jumped the curb and pinned her against a…
32 year old David Rodriguez died from injuries he sustained in an accident during which he was hit by a NYC MTA Bus as he was riding his bike 9 days ago. Rodriguez was biking east on Van Dike Street in Brooklyn, NYC, when he was struck by a MTA B57 Bus…
86 cases of Legionnaire’s disease have been confirmed in the South Bronx during the last three weeks. This is the largest and deadliest outbreak of Legionnaires’disease in New York City. The disease which is a severe form of pneumonia is spread through a bacteria that grows in the water. This…
Last April, 22 year old Carlos Moncayo died in a construction accident in New York because two construction managers put profit over safety. According to the NY Daily News, on April 6th, Christian Ofusu, an independent engineer assigned to oversee the work on a Ninth Ave site in the Meatpacking…
A worker was seriously injured in a construction accident in New York yesterday afternoon. The worker fell from the second floor of a future 62-story building located at 435 W. 31st St in Hudson Yards on the west side of Manhattan. He was taken to the hospital in serious condition.…
A worker was injured in a construction accident Friday in New York City. The accident happened at the Red Hook East Houses on Henry Street in Brooklyn, NYC. The worker was standing on scaffolding on the second floor when an AC Unit fell on him. The cooling unit was being removed…
A 57 year old man was seriously injured in a bicycle accident during which a car hit him and fled. The bicyclist had stopped in the middle of the street and was trying to cross West 145th street near Lenox Avenue when a red sedan struck him and sped away. The impact was so…