Marco Fornasetti, 29, a newlywed and pharmacist from Vicenza, Italy, was among those killed in a fatal crash involving an Italian tour bus and a tractor trailer in the Poconos in eastern Pennsylvania on Wednesday, Pennsylvania State Police said Thursday. Fornasetti’s wife, also a pharmacist, was among the dozens of people injured in the
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Construction-related incidents have killed eight people so far this year, which is as much as all of 2014. The last time the number of fatalities was this high was in 2008, the New York Times reported, at the height of the last building boom. The total number of accidents rose 24 percent in 2014 to
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An air conditioning unit being hoisted by a crane to the top of a Midtown Manhattan building Sunday morning plummeted about 28 stories after a cable snapped and 10 people were injured by falling debris, authorities said. The AC unit sheared the side of the 30-story building on Madison Avenue between East 38th and East
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This month we secured a $1,525,000.00 settlement from the City of New York and another defendant for a laborer who sustained back injuries at a Bronx construction site on East 75th Street. The laborer, who was paid in cash, maintained that an unshored trench in the roadway collapsed, causing him to fall approximately six to eight
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Sergei Musatov, 42, an assistant professor of neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medical Center, was killed in a hit-and-run car accident on 129th Street in East Harlem on Thursday. Musatov was riding his bicycle when a speeding 2002 silver Mercedes sedan, which was fleeing authorities, rear-ended his bicycle and sent him flying into the sedan’s
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Construction workers provide an important service. They dig the tunnels, they pave the roads, they build the buildings. Without construction workers, New York would not be the great city that it is. But while construction workers provide a critical service to the city, they do not have the safest job. Far from it. Accidents at
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The driver of a Lexus crashed into a city bus and was killed on Monday morning in Staten Island, according to reports. The accident occurred on Victory Boulevard and Signs Road in Bulls Head. Samuel Cruz, 32, was killed when his SUV veered into the path of an S62 bus, hit the driver’s side,
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A deadly car crash involving three vehicles killed one person and left nine others injured. Seven of them were children. The accident occurred on Tuesday morning at South Conduit Avenue and South 130th Street in South Ozone Park. According to reports, a GMC suburban collided with a Dodge Neon, which forced the Neon in
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During Memorial Day weekend, three people were killed in separate car accidents throughout New York City. Ian Paul Blubb, 49, of Flatlands, Brooklyn, was struck by a 1999 Jeep Cherokee on Rockaway Parkway at around 10:20 p.m. on Friday. The police found Blubb lying on the road outside the crosswalk, according to reports. He
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Two children were critically injured in separate car accidents over Memorial Day weekend. Abriana Carrasco, 7, was leaving a barbecue on Sunday around 10 p.m., and was crossing the street when she was struck by a black Jeep Wrangler in the Williamsbridge section of the Bronx. Carrasco was rushed to Jacobi Medical Center,
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