Car Accidents

Three people were injured after an accident involving three cars on Sunrise Highway on Tuesday morning, officials said.   A 36-year-old man was driving his Nissan Altima westbound on Sunrise Highway at around 6:35 a.m. when he lost control of his car, crossed a median onto the other side, and struck a Hyundai Elantra. The […]

Seven officers and one civilian were hospitalized with minor injuries after four police vehicles were involved in a car accident on FDR Drive in East Harlem.   The officers were traveling in convoy southbound on East 116th Street when a civilian car ahead of them slowed down and caused the first police car to rear-end

A mother and her two young daughters were injured after a car struck them in Hicksville. The accident occurred at the intersection of Newbridge Road and West Old Country Road around 10 p.m. on Christmas Eve.   A 39-year-old male driver was driving along Newbridge Road/Old Country Road when the family crossed the street. The

Diane Lamache, 26, was killed in a car accident after her drunken and stoned boyfriend slammed his car into a tractor trailer in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Eloy Perez, 27, the boyfriend of Lamache, was driving along Vandervoort Avenue when he crashed into a tractor trailer pulling out of a parking lot.   Lamache suffered severe head

Latanya Mowatt, 25, of Deer Park was involved in a car crash that sent her 6-year-old niece flying out of the vehicle and also injured her 8-year-old daughter, officials said. The allegedly drunk woman was driving her 2004 Nissan Maxima on Brookdale Avenue when she lost control of her car and crashed into a utility

Two people were seriously injured after being extricated from their car, which was wedged under a tractor trailer on Friday morning in Bay Shore, Long Island, according to reports.   Billy David Goodman, 57, of Arkansas, was driving his tractor trailer on Sweeneydale Avenue and attempted to make a left turn onto Fifth Avenue when

Cesar Marin, 27, of East Hampton, was identified as the driver who died in a Bridgehampton car accident involving a Suffolk County transit bus Friday morning, according to reports.   Marin was driving on Montauk Highway when he lost control of his car “due to icy roadway conditions,” officials said. The 2002 Chevrolet Trailblazer went

A 22-year-old woman was struck and killed by a runaway taxi on a Midtown sidewalk last week. According to officials, the taxi driver parked and stepped out of his vehicle to help a passenger around West 51st Street and Eighth Avenue around 8:30 p.m. Police are trying to determine what caused the vehicle to roll,

A van fatally struck a 77-year-old woman as she crossed a street in Brooklyn, according to reports. The accident occurred at East 21st Street and Gravesend Neck Road in Sheepshead Bay, when the 2005 Ford Econoline delivery van made a left turn and struck the woman. The incident was one out of three accidents involving

Elroy Perez, 27, of Brooklyn, was arrested and charged for the fatal car crash that claimed the life of his passenger in Greenpoint on Wednesday morning. Perez was under the influence of drugs and speeding when he crashed his car into the side of a tractor trailer that was getting out of a parking lot