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An out-of-control Mercedes-Benz driver injured five highway repair workers in a car crash on the Cross Island Parkway near the Douglaston Parkway, officials said.   The driver crashed into highway repair scaffolding and struck the back of a Tully Construction box.   The driver abandoned the car and fled the scene. The driver left two […]

An NYPD traffic agent was injured after being struck by a hit-and-run driver in Midtown Manhattan, officials said. The accident occurred at East 37th Street between Park Avenue and Lexington Avenue.   The victim was taken to Bellevue Hospital with minor injuries. Officials said the traffic agent was in stable condition.   Police are still

According to the Mayor’s 2016 Management Report, cyclist deaths have risen by 25 percent in a twelve month period ending from July 2015 to June 2016.   Twenty cyclists were killed from traffic crashes compared to 16 deaths in the same period in 2015. However, overall traffic fatalities fell 5.2 percent to 236 deaths from

An 80-year-old man was seriously injured after his SUV backed into him on the Cross Bronx Expressway, officials said.   The victim, whose identity has not been released, had pulled over onto the shoulder of the highway near Jerome Avenue because he had run out of gas, police said. He was unaware that his car

Five kayakers were injured after after a ferry struck them on the Hudson River, officials said.   The kayakers, led by a Manhattan Kayak staffer, were traveling in a group of 11 when a NY Waterway ferry pulled out of Pier 79 near 12th Avenue and 39th Street and struck the group. The ferry’s captain

Zachary Dunn, 18, of Yonkers was killed after a hit-and-run accident on the Saw Mill Parkway near the McLean Avenue bridge, officials said.   Officials later arrested Junior Silverio-Ventura, 19, who they have charged with felony for leaving the scene of a fatal motor vehicle accident.   Dunn’s car had a flat tire and he

A motorcyclist was killed after he collided with a white Chrysler in the Bronx, officials said. The 48-year-old man was traveling eastbound on the Bruckner Expressway when he collided with a car going in the same direction, police said.   The motorcyclist, whose identity was not released, lost control of his bike and hit the

Desray Leroy, 23, was killed in a Queens car crash after she and six people piled into a five-passenger car and struck another vehicle at Linden Boulevard in South Ozone Park, officials said.   Leroy and her friends were returning home after a surprise birthday party for her sister, Stephanie, 21.   The victim had