A New York City taxi driver struck and seriously injured a pedestrian yesterday in Soho. The driver, Kah-Am Rahaman, was quoted as saying when he turned his cab, the glare from the sun blinded him and he struck a pedestrian who was crossing the street. This avoidable accident happened at the corner of Spring Street […]
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New York police investigated a fatal accident that took place outside of a church carnival in Yonkers. When a Jeep suddenly sped out of a parking lot, the vehicle collided with two parked cars, three occupied cars and four pedestrians. The accident killed a teenage girl and critically injured her sister. Two other teens who
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A 54-year-old woman died in a three-car crash in Canarsie Tuesday morning. The woman was driving her green Pontiac Grand Prix south on Ralph Avenue when she hit a grey Volkswagen sedan at Foster Avenue about 4:30 a.m. The Grand Prix then careened into a nearby tractor trailer while the Volkswagen slammed into a light pole. If a
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A bicyclist was seriously injured after a truck hit him in Downtown Brooklyn Sunday night. The 34-year-old cyclist was heading south on Smith Street and tried to turn left onto Schermerhorn Street when a northbound 2004 GMC truck slammed into him. The cyclist suffered internal injuries and was rushed to Bellevue Hospital, where he was listed
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A man died after a car struck him Monday morning in Schuylerville. The man, 74 year-old Angel Figueroa, was hit near East Tremont and Mayflower avenues, across the street from St. Raymond’s Cemetery, at about 8 a.m. Three cars have been reported to have struck him, only two of which remained at the scene. The attorneys
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An MTA officer was critically injured when he was struck by a vehicle Sunday morning at the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. 61-year old Thomas Choi, a 10-year veteran, had parked his wrecker truck near the entrance to the Brooklyn-bound lower level of the bridge near the facility administration building when he was struck by a Nissan Maxima
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A 69-year-old woman was struck and killed by a car as she crossed a street in Brooklyn Sunday night. Ethel Rubenstein was pronounced dead at the hospital after she was hit by a minivan on 11th Avenue near 49th Street in Borough Park shortly before 11 p.m. We have handled many pedestrian killings of New
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Two people were seriously injured in an Edgemere crash Wednesday that involved an NYPD squad car. The two vehicles, a black sedan and a police car, smashed into each other near Rockaway Beach Boulevard and Beach 41st Street about 6:30 p.m. When a car accident happens with an emergency or police vehicle, there are specials laws which
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New York residents may be interested in this story about a woman who went missing from a San Francisco hospital. Although her condition had been improving, she disappeared from her hospital room for mysterious reasons. After friends and family searched the city for weeks, the missing 57-year-old woman was eventually found deceased in a hospital
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A portion of the New Jersey Turnpike closed northbound between exits 7 and 7A due to a multi-vehicle accident. The accident involved a bus, a dump truck and at least two other vehicles. It happened at 9:30 a.m. Thursday several miles north of Exit 7 at mile marker 57.7 in Hamilton Township, Mercer County. Being involved
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