Four people were injured, two critically, after a fire truck slammed into an SUV in the Bronx Friday morning. The fire engine was heading north on Laconia Avenue when it slammed into a sliver Honda SUV at Waring Avenue about 8:30 a.m. Four victims, none of them firefighters, were taken to Jacobi Medical Center. […]
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While New York residents may be happy to hear that, according to information from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the number of young adults who die in car accidents has dropped, there is little else that is good news in crash data from 2012. The number of people between the ages of 16- and
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A 32 year-old cyclist, Christopher Meyer, was killed by a hit and run driver underneath the BQE in Williamsburg early Monday morning. Police responded to a 911 call of a person being struck by a vehicle on Meeker Avenue beneath the overpass between Frost Street and Manhattan Avenue at around 3:53 a.m. and found the
The driver involved in a fatal hit-and-run accident on Friday in Edenwald has turned himself in. The accident happened shortly after 8 p.m. on Baychester Avenue. A white van struck a man and drove off, leaving him injured in the street. EMS crews found the man with severe body trauma and he was pronounced dead.
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The construction worker who died Friday after falling 70 feet while working on an NYU building was an avid musician and loving family man, according to his family and posts on his social media accounts. Jaime Sillart, 56, of Bergenfield, NJ, fell from scaffolding at 19 University Place on Friday, a construction site where he had been working for
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Six people were sent to the hospital after an early Thursday morning police car crash at a Woodlawn gas station. It happened at the Hess station on Katonah Avenue and East 233rd Street where an NYPD car ended up leaning against a gas vacuum with its front end missing at around 3 a.m. Police say
Kaylan Pedine was standing outside a Murray Hill bar with her friends one July evening in 2012 when a group of NYPD officers strolled by. Like many New Yorkers, Pedine is critical of the department’s stop and frisk policies, and just as the last officer passed, she remarked, “I wish they would stop stop-and-frisk.” In less
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An accident in the Bronx on Hutchinson River Parkway on the morning of Nov. 9 resulted in two deaths and three injuries. The car accident occurred at approximately 7 a.m. near Orchard Beach Road and involved multiple vehicles, the FDNY said. According to police, the accident began when the driver of an SUV lost control
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A man was seriously injured after falling about 15 feet from a ladder into a hole at a Long Island City construction site. The man, whose identity was not immediately released, fell about 9:32 a.m. inside the site near Northern Boulevard and 40th Road. He was unconscious when medical crews rescued him. When a fall
Olga Rivera, 65, was killed in East Harlem earlier today when a cab sideswiped a delivery truck causing it to jump the curb and run her down. She was taken to Mt. Sinai hospital, but she could not be saved. The cab was driving west on 102nd Street when it hit a truck traveling south on
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