A man who was drunk behind the wheels crashed his car into a telephone pole. His son who was in the car with him was critically injured and rushed to the hospital where he died five days later. The man refused to surrender and the police had to track him…
4 people died and several others were injured in a car crash on a Long Island highway in an area nicknamed by locals “Blood Alley” for the many car accidents that previously occurred in this specific area of North Massapequa, NY . The accident caused by a wrong-way driver occurred…
Fall sports have arrived and unfortunately some children will get injured when practicing sports. Having to bring a child to the emergency room, especially during the pandemic, is every parent’s nightmare. Therefore parents should discuss sport injury prevention with their children and also make sure that coaches do follow safe…
Falls in construction are the main cause of construction worker deaths and injuries. In the US, every year around 200 workers die and 10,000 suffer personal injury after they fell on a construction site. To prevent and reduce fall accidents, every year since 2012, the Center for Construction Research and…
Hollywood Star Kevin Spacey sexually abused two children when they were only 14 years old. As with most pedophiles, Spacey groomed these children, took advantage of their youth and engaged in abusive sexual acts. Spacey’s conduct was not only improper, but it was a crime. “There is no justification for…
A cyclist was fatally struck by a bus in New York City on Monday. 35 year old Sarah Pitts, was riding her bike on Whythe Avenue in Brooklyn when she was fatally struck by a charter bus belonging to Excellent Bus Service. The accident occurred just after midnight near Williamsburg…
While bicycle accidents injuries in New York City went down by 3.6% during the last 3 months compared to the same period last year, bicycle accident injuries in the Bronx increased by 35 %. Bicyclist activist organization, Transportation Alternatives has been asking the city to install more bike lanes in…
During the Covid-19 lock-down, NYC car accident deaths and motorcyclist deaths related to reckless behavior, mostly speeding, increased. City officials were expecting fatalities to go down as the city was getting more active again but statistics show that instead traffic accident fatalities surged after the lock-down. As a result the…
At least 3 teenagers suffered serious injury and were hospitalized and another one died after they participated in a new challenge on the popular Tik Tok app. The Benadryl challenge requires participants to take an amount of Benadryl larger that the recommended dosage in order to be able to hallucinate…
To prevent and reduce construction accidents injuries and deaths in New York City, Local Law 196 requires that most construction workers receive 40 hours of safety training and that their supervisor receive 62 hours of training. Local Law 196 was passed in 2017 after construction accidents fatalities recorded by the…