Car Accidents

A garbage truck caused a major accident that killed two people, injured another, and left hundreds of people without power on Long Island early Saturday morning, officials said. A garbage truck t-boned a BMW sports utility vehicle, causing the SUV to burst into flames and toppling power lines at around 4:15 a.m. Saturday in Inwood.

Three New York Police Department (NYPD) officers were hospitalized after their car was struck by a hit-and-run driver in Washington Heights early Saturday, according to authorities.   The three officers were on duty in an unmarked car when a vehicle struck them near West 184th Street and Wadsworth Avenue around 3:30 a.m., police said. The

Brittany Leith, 25, of North Babylon was struck and killed by a car on the Southern State Parkway after she survived a car crash and returned to the car to retrieve her belongings, officials said.   At around 4 a.m., Leith collided into the center median of the Southern State Parkway near Exit 36, which

A teenager from Central Islip died from a head-on car crash in Central Islip on Monday evening, police said. Anthony Fucci, 17, was driving a 1999 Honda Civic on Lowell Avenue when he lost control of the car and struck a 2008 Toyota Sequoia near Satinwood Street.   Fucci ejected from the car due to

Just seven blocks apart, two pedestrians were struck and killed in separate car crashes in Brooklyn on Wednesday night, officials said.   Sofiya Ostrovskaya, 66, of Brooklyn, was the first victim of a fatal hit-and-run accident that evening. At around 7:15 p.m., she was crossing Cropsey Avenue at Bay 34th Street when a dark vehicle

A pedestrian was killed and three others were injured when a car flipped onto a sidewalk in Brooklyn on Monday evening, officials said. The driver, 58-year-old Paul Omoregie, was arrested on Tuesday for driving without a license. Charles Kinyeti, 50, of Flatbush, was fatally crushed by the car, which landed on top of him, police

The driver of a car involved in a fatal crash in Staten Island was charged with criminal drug and driving counts, police said. Angel Ortiz, 25, of Meiers Corners, who had a previous criminal record, has been charged with two counts of criminal possession of controlled substance and aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle.

An elderly woman was struck and killed by a taxi cab in the Upper West Side on Sunday morning, according to reports. The incident happened at West 109th Street and Columbus Avenue at 12:49 a.m.   Luisa Rosario, 88, who lived on West 110th Street, was attempting to cross the street at 109th Street when

The 56-year-old driver of a the Skyliner charter bus that allegedly struck and killed a woman in Flushing, Queens, then fled, was found in Connecticut, police said. The accident happened on Thursday evening at the intersection of Main Street and Kissena Boulevard.   Aglaia Gounaris, 84, was crossing mid-block when she was hit by the

A pedestrian was struck and killed by a driver in the Upper West Side on Saturday, officials said. The 86-year-old woman, who has not been identified, was struck at West End Avenue and West 64th Street.   She was traveling east across West End Avenue when the driver of a 2002 Toyota Camry struck her