An 86 year old woman died after being struck by a car in Manhattan last Friday around 5:00 pm. The woman was crossing West End Ave near 64th Street on the Upper West Side when she was struck by a car. The driver remained at the scene of the accident while…
Based on New York crash statistics analyzed from July 2012 to December 2014, the most dangerous intersections on Woodhaven Boulevard were: 101st Ave & Woodhaven Blvd with 42 crashes, 62 injuries and 1 fatality Jamaica Ave & Woodhaven Blvd with 38 crashes, 52 injuries and 2 fatalities Queens Blvd & Woodhaven Blvd with 32 crashes and 42 injuries…
To prevent car accidents in school areas in New York City, the Department of Transportation completed the installation of 140 speed cameras at the beginning of this month, just on time for the beginning of the school year. The installation of the speed cameras which is part of the Vision Zero initiative to…
We are proud to announce that a bicycle accident verdict and an auto accident settlement obtained by our New York personal injury attorneys have been listed in the 2015 New York Law Journal’s New York’s Verdict & Settlement Hall of Fame. Induction into the New York’s Verdicts and Settlements Hall of…
Tow teenagers from Manhattan were injured, one critically in a car accident on Saturday around 8 pm. The non identified 17 year old driver and his 18 year old passenger identified as Steven Fermin had stolen the car from the Six Flags Great Adventure theme park in New Jersey. They were…
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…
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…
5 pedestrians died and 696 suffered personal injury in April in New York City compared to respectively 8 and 854 in April 2014 and 12 and 904 in April 2013. Pedestrian fatalities have been declining since the beginning of this year and reached their lowest in April. The total number of…
New York Personal Injury Lawyer Ben Rubinowitz who is representing Dana Lerner and Richard Stock in a wrongful death lawsuit against Koffi Komlani, the taxi driver who killed their son Cooper in a traffic accident, said to the New York Post that both parties were proprely served after the lawyers representing the…
3449 people were injured and 13 people died in traffic accidents in New York City in January 2015 compared to respectively 3899 and 21 in January 2014 , 3993 and 28 in January 2013 and 4179 and 21 in January 2012. These numbers are encouraging and may indicate that the Vision Zero…