21 people were injured in a massive NYC apartment fire last week. The fire started around 1:00 pm last Tuesday in an apartment on the 6th floor of a large building located on 34th Avenue near 89th Street in Jackson Heights, Queens. While escaping, the resident of the apartment left…
During the pandemic, NYC bicycle accident injuries and deaths have reached record highs. Many New Yorkers who switched their Metrocard for a bike lock learned that commuting in New York City by bike remains challenging especially in some areas of the city where bicycling infrastructures are still limited. To help…
A pedestrian got his leg severed in a freak car accident in Brooklyn last Sunday night. The 33 year old victim was exiting a livery car at the intersection of Elton Street and Atlantic Avenue in East New York when a 58 year old woman driving a Lexus crashed into…
It is very disappointing to see how some motorists in NYC have so little concern about pedestrian safety. In the video below, a man driving a pick up truck makes a right turn without yielding to an elderly pedestrian in Brooklyn, knocking him down to the ground and just continuing…
Repairing facades can be dangerous. Many construction workers died or were injured while repairing facades in New York without counting the multiple close calls where workers find themselves dangling out of suspended scaffolds like the worker in the below video who was lucky he could get back on. Sometimes workers…
A reckless unlicensed 18 year old driver, behind the wheel of a stolen car, blew a stop sign and crashed into another car, killing the passenger and seriously injuring the driver last week in Staten Island. He then fled on foot. The police found him later on. He was arrested…
502 construction workers were injured on NYC construction sites last year conpared to 596 in 2019 and 761 in 2018. The number of construction accident injuries in New York is at its lowest since 2015. The COVID lockdown and the global slowdown in the construction industry contributed to this decline.…
To reduce injuries and deaths on NYC construction sites, Mayor de Blasio signed Local Law 196 in 2017. This law requires that workers can only be allowed to work on a construction site in the city if they attended a minimum amount of hours of safety training. Construction superintendents, Site…
8 passengers and a driver were injured in a MTA bus accident last week. The driver lost control of the bus and plunged from an overpass, leaving the articulated bus dangling over an expressway in the Bronx. The accident occurred as the articulated bus was on the University Avenue overpass…
116 bicyclists, 504 pedestrians, 1,116 motor vehicle passengers and 1,795 motor vehicle drivers were injured in traffic accidents in New York City during the month of November for a total of 4,039 people injured. Another 28 people died in similar circumstances, among them were 6 cyclists, 13 pedestrians, 1 passenger…