A Brooklyn worker died in a car wash accident on Sunday. The accident investigators are still looking for the causes of the accident. A SUV had just come out of the automated rails and the worker was taking car of the detailing when suddenly the car and another vehicle crashed in the street, ejecting the worker and killing him.
Little is known so far about the risk of personal injury for astronauts who are participating in long-duration and exploration space flight.
The Institute of Medicine recently released the Review of NASA’s Evidence Reports on Human Health Risks: 2013 Letter Report , which is the first in a serie of five reports that reviews more than 30 evidence reports that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has compiled on human health risks for long-duration and exploration space flights.
The 2013 Letter Report builds on the work of the 2008 letter report and examines three NASA evidence reports: Risk of Injury from Dynamic Loads; Risk of Spaceflight-induced Intracranial Hypertension/Vision Alterations; and Risk of Clinically Relevant Unpredicted Effects of Medication.
A 16 month-old child wrongfully died and a 15 month-old child was severely injured after they became entangled in a very popular Ikea’s children’s wall-mounted lamp.
There were 2.9 million lamps sold in the US, 1.1 million in Canada and 23 million worldwide.
Consumers should stop using the defective lamp and contact Ikea at 888 966 4532 for a free repair kit. The repair kit has self-adhesive fasteners for attaching the lamp’s cord to the wall as well as safety instructions.
To prevent wrongful death and personal injury caused by defective or unsafe bedside sleepers a new federal mandatory standard to improve the safety of bedside sleepers was just approved by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)
A bedside sleeper is a bassinet that is attached to an adult bed for parents to easily access their infant from their bed. It is intended for babies up to approximately 5 months.
Among the changes, the new standard includes modifications to the existing standard to address fabric-sided enclosed opening entrapment hazards. Between 2007 and 2009, the CPSC received 4 reports of infant wrongful deaths associated with fabric-sided openings on the products.
After 9 year old Cooper Stock was fatally struck by a cab driver in New York City on Friday Night, many in New York are wondering if cab drivers can kill with impunity as in most accidents the police are allegedly not thoroughly investigating criminal wrongdoing at the scene. According to an article in the New York Post, only one cab driver was criminally charged out of 21 accidents that seriously injured or killed pedestrians or bicyclists.
Read more in New York Post.
4 people were injured in a car accident that happened Sunday night at a Popeye restaurant in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York. The 62 year old driver of the SUV lost control of his car which crashed into the front window of the restaurant. The driver and the passenger as well as two customers were injured. One person was in critical condition, two suffered serious personal injury and one suffered minor injury. The front wall of the restaurant was completely destroyed.
32 year old Nydja Herring died in a drunk driving car accident in NYC this weekend. The accident happened Saturday at 5.30 pm as the mother of the 2 year old twins had just stepped out to run errands for the toddlers at a store nearby. Nydja was crossing the street at the intersection of East Tremont Ave and Van Nest Ave in the Bronx when a drunk driver, 28 year old Augustus Jenkin plowed into her. Jenkins was driving with a suspended license and had 3 passengers in in the car including two children 4 and 10 years old.
After two pedestrians were killed in traffic accidents on the Upper West Side in NYC on Friday night, Scott Stringer said that “Upper West Side pedestrian deaths send a clear message: Time for studying the 96th St traffic corridor is over, NYC needs to take action to prevent fatalities. I look forward to working with the DOT to take all necessary steps to protect road users – pedestrians, cyclists, and motorists alike – and to implement a Vision Zero agenda that makes every street in every borough as safe as it can be. Our City has already had nine traffic-related deaths in 2014, and my heart goes out to the families of last night’s victims.”
Read more in CBS New York
Alexander Shear, 73, died in a bus accident in New York on Friday night. The accident happened on 96th street and Broadway on the Upper West Side of NYC.
Alexander Shear who was famous in New York for his pop culture collection was hit and dragged by a Shafer tour bus driver who was making a turn from Broadway to 96th street. The Tour Bus driver didn’t realize he had hit anyone and dragged the man to his death. Horrified witnesses had to chase him to stop him.
Read more in the Daily News
A 9 year old boy died in a car accident in NYC on Friday night. Copper Stock was walking with his father, the oncologist Richard Stock, on the Upper West Side in New York City on Friday night when the fatal accident occurred. The young boy and his dad were trying to cross the intersection of West End Ave and West 97th Street when they were struck by a taxi driver making a left turn. Cooper, a third grader at The Calhoun School died at the hospital. He loved the Knicks, the New York Yankees and classic rock ‘n’ roll.
Unfortunately, pedestrians being struck by vehicles making left turns are all to common in NYC.
Read more in the New York Times.
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