A car driver miraculously suffered only minor injuries after he crashed his car into a Queens beauty salon last week on Thursday night. According to the NY Daily News the car driver was about to leave the gas station across the street when he mixed up the gas pedal with…
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A woman died and two firefighters suffered injury in a fire in Queens, NYC
A 40 year old woman died from third degree burns and cardiac arrest after a fire ravaged her apartment on the sixth floor of a Jackson Heights building in Queens, NYC early Saturday. Two firefighters were also injured and hospitalized but their lives are not in danger. The investigation is…
4 people suffered personal injury after a driver ran a red light and crashed into another car in Queens, NYC
A car accident near the Long Island Expressway in Maspeth, Queens, NYC, left 4 men injured on Sunday morning. Three men in their 20ies were riding in a Nissan Sedan when the driver ran a red light and crashed into a Mercedes Benz. The driver of the Mercedes Benz was…
Young boy dies after falling from a window in the Bronx, NYC
A two year old boy died after he fell out of a window early Sunday morning on Gerard Ave in the Bronx, New York. The window guards were installed as required by New York Law but the 2 year old boy may have climbed over them. The toddler woke up…
Two New York construction workers injured in elevator accident
Two construction workers were injured in an elevator accident in Greenwich Village on Wednesday after the elevator counterweight snapped causing the elevator to drop half a floor. The two construction workers loaded the elevator with construction material. Some of the construction material which protruded through a hatch in the roof…
Man dies in Queens elevator accident
A man plunged to his death in the shaft of a broken elevator in an apartment building in Flushing Queens, NYC. The man was moving a small refrigerator and he had called the elevator to bring the refrigerator downstairs. When the doors opened the man didn’t realize that the car…
The number of pedestrians who died in traffic fatalities in NYC is down by 24% but the number of fatal bicycle accidents is up 33% for the first six months of the year
There were 18,321 motor vehicle accidents in New York City in June according to the recent statistics published by the NYPD. This is the highest number of accidents per month in one year and the second consecutive month that this number is above 18,000. A similar increase in vehicle accidents…
Deadly house explosion in Port Washington, NY
One person was killed in a massive house explosion that happened Tuesday night at 10 Prospect Ave in Port Washington, Long Island,NY. According to CBS New York, one home was completely destroyed and 8 cars were burned. Nearby homes were evacuated and gas was shut down.
62 year old MTA contractor dies after being crushed by an industrial battery being unloaded from a truck in the Bronx, NYC, during construction / renovation project
A MTA contractor was killed by a 2700 pound industrial battery that fell of a crate that he was unloading from a truck. The accident happened at the Throgs Neck Expressway facility near Pennyfiels Ave in the Bronx, NY. The workers at the facility are operating and maintaining the Throgs…
An accident between two double-decker tourist buses left 15 injured in Time Square, New York
At least 14 people suffered personal injury after the driver of a doudble-decker red Gray Line sightseeing bus sideswiped a parked double-decker City Sights bus and another vehicle before jumping the curb onto the sidewalk at 47th Street ad 7th Ave in Manhattan next to the TKTS discount ticket. The…