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A pedestrian suffered serious personal injury after being hit by a New York Fire Department Truck while crossing McDonald Ave near Church in Brooklyn New York. The truck was racing to a blaze when the accident happened. The pedestrian, a 30 year old man, was immediately given aid by the firefighters who dispatched another truck to the blaze.

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To prevent traffic crashes, the New York Fire Department is considering adding a safety device under the seat of the ambulance driver to analyze in real time the speed, g-force, seat belt use, lights, sirens and other factors. When the driver becomes too aggressive by driving too fast or taking turns too hard the device emits a sound to alert him.

This device is already used by the emergency medical services at Jersey City Medical Center and drivers said they really like it because it helps them to make an appropriate decision in terms of response time while keeping the safety of the crew and other people on the road in mind.

In the US, there are 10,000 ambulance accidents every year.

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Gloria Mabry, 74 died in a bus accident in New York on Friday night. It was raining that night and the grandmother was coming back from the supermarket. She was pushing a cart full of groceries when she was struck and killed by a MTA bus on Co-op City Boulevard and Dreiser Loop.

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Pedestrian fatalities are on the rise in New York city and more than 220 New Yorkers have been killed in traffic accidents this year. In a plan called “Vision Zero” Bill de Blasio committed to eliminating traffic accident deaths by 2014. We shall see.

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A New york Traffic Enforcement agent who died in a truck accident last week in Midtown Manhattan was eulogized by NYPD Commissioner Kelly at the funeral yesterday. Kalyanarat Ranasinghe, a 71 year old NYPD Traffic Agent was struck and killed by a vacuum truck as the truck driver was pulling away from a parking spot. Kelly said the traffic agent loved his job and had a calming effect on everyone he encountered.

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Rollovers account for 60% of all fatal large bus accidents. When a large bus or a motorcoach rolls over, passengers have a high risk to die or to be severely injured after being ejected from their seat (see graph). Since 1968, the National Transportation Safety Board has been advocating for motorcoaches to be equipped with seat belts to reduce the number of wrongful deaths and personal injuries but the bus manufacturers have been effectively lobbying against it all these years because of the additional cost involved.

Last week this debate was partially resolved when the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) announced a new regulation requiring new motorcoaches and large buses to be equipped with lap and shoulder seat belts for each passenger and driver seat starting November 2016.

Unfortunately, the regulation doesn’t apply to school buses, existing commercial buses and the majority of public transit buses in cities.

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The epidemic number of wrongful death related to pedestrians and bicyclists hit by vehicles reached a new high on Wednesday night as 4 people were killed in an half an hour time span in New York City. A man who was riding his bike in Queens died after being hit by a truck whose driver fled. A an 88-year-old woman crossing Ave. C in Manhattan was killed after being struck by a Con Ed truck and two women were killed when a car hit them as they crossed Forest Hill Road in Staten Island.

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A sanitation worker had his legs crushed in a terrible truck accident that happened Friday in the Bronx. As he was turning left, the garbage truck driver hit a pillar. His door was open and the impact caused the driver to be ejected from the cab. He landed under the still moving vehicle. His legs were crushed. He was rushed to the hospital in critical condition.

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A bus driver and several children were injured when a school bus overturned after a collision with a pick up truck. The crash happened this morning at the intersection of Oakdale St. and Preston Ave. in Eltingville, Staten Island, New York. The police are still investigating the cause of the accident.
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Jose Torres, 57, died yesterday after being struck by a tow truck in a Crosswalk at East 181st Street and Southern Boulevard in the Bronx, New York. The police are still investigating the reason for the accident. Read more in the New York Daily News

Earlier this week on Wednesday afternoon 12 year old Samuel Cohen-Eckstein was struck by a van as he ran across a Brooklyn street in New York to chase after a soccer ball. The boy who suffered serious injury was rushed to the hospital where he died. Read more in The New York Daily News

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Cargo%20Tank%20Rollover.pngDriving too fast and weather conditions are the main causes of cargo tank truck rollovers but other factors such as vehicle design, load effect or liquid slosh and surge, highway factors and driver factors can also be at the origin of a rollover.

This very instructive video from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) and Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) explains in detail how each factor can contribute to a rollover and look at common driving errors that can cause this dangerous type of truck accident.

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