Carol Dauplaise, 77, was killed after being struck by a livery cab while she was crossing Madison Avenue at East 36th Street at around 8:35 a.m., police said. She was carrying a suitcase when she was struck by the black Toyota Avalon. Around 10 good Samaritans tried to rescue Dauplaise who was pinned underneath […]
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Three people were killed and two people were injured in separate collisions involving motor vehicles around New York City on Sunday, police said. Jose Contreras, 63, was trying to cross Webster Avenue near the entrance ramp to the Cross Bronx Expressway when he was struck by a black sport utility vehicle at around 1:30
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Kathy Horan, 61, was arraigned with two felony charges for leaving the scene of an accident, which resulted in the death of a man and injured three others in Medford on Friday night, according to reports. She was charged with leaving the scene of an accident involving a fatality, and leaving the scene involving a
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A 50-year-old woman was struck and killed by a yellow school bus, police said. The accident occurred on Atlantic Avenue near Schenectady Avenue in Crown Heights at 6:30 p.m. on a Friday. The school bus was driving eastbound on Atlantic when another car cut it off. The bus driver swerved to avoid the car,
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A driver and his passenger were killed when the car they were riding in struck a guardrail, went airborne and burst into flames off Laurelton Parkway in Queens, officials said. The passenger, who was only identified as a female co-worker of the driver, was riding in the passenger seat of the 2007 Infiniti G35
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More than 30 people were injured after a charter bus coming from Queens and heading to the Mohegan Sun casino overturned on a snow-covered Connecticut highway on Monday afternoon. The Interstate 95 was closed for hours by police, according to reports. Fifty-five people, including the driver, were aboard the bus when it flipped over
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David Wichs, 38, was instantly killed after a giant crane collapsed onto Worth Street on Friday morning. Wichs, a Harvard grad and computer trader from Prague, was crushed to death by 330 tons of steel, according to reports. He was only a five minute stroll from his Tribeca office. One man was seriously injured
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A construction worker was critically injured after he fell five stories from a condominium construction site and was impaled on the steel rebar below, according to reports. The accident happened at 34 West 17th Street and 6th Avenue in the Flatiron District on Wednesday morning. The unidentified Empire Builder Corp. worker was taken to
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FDNY crews rescued four construction workers when the scaffolding they were on collapsed at an upper Manhattan work site, officials said. The workers were on a six-story apartment building at 44 Seaman Avenue in Inwood at 11:45 a.m. when the main cable of the scaffolding snapped, officials said. The men were first saved by
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A crane accident can leave people with serious injuries. Those injuries may require hospitalization and surgery. Workers may not be able to return to work for a significant amount of time. Sadly, injuries sustained in a crane accident may even prove to be fatal. Construction workers in New York City who suffer injuries on the
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