Car Accidents

When people are injured in a car accident caused by another driver’s negligence, New York law provides that the injured may seek compensation for their damages through a personal injury lawsuit. These damages can include relatively concrete financial losses, such as medical expenses or wages that were lost while the injured person was unable to

A man was driving his car home from his niece’s graduation party, when he lost control of his car and crashed into a home in Queens on Sunday morning, authorities said.   Louis Benjamin, 39, suddenly lost control of his 2001 Acura sedan on Elmont Road in North Valley Stream, ran through a fence and

A father and his young son were killed when their car crashed into St. Charles Cemetery in East Farmingdale, Long Island around 4 p.m. on Saturday, authorities said.   Ravi Maharaj, 44, of North Amityville, and his son, Lochan Maharaj, 11, were driving their 1995 Nissan Maxima on New Highway when the man lost control

Many New Yorkers have done it: they have glanced at their cell phone, fiddled with the radio or checked out people in another nearby vehicle. What is the harm of that? After all, it only takes a moment. But according to a new study, even a moment can be dangerous; it just depends what happens

Twelve-year-old Ervi Secundino was struck and killed by a taxi while crossing the street in front of his school. The boy was struck in front of P.S. 200 elementary and intermediate school on Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard just before 4 p.m., according to police.   He was in “very critical condition” when he was

Anthony Sylvia, 28, of East Meadow was killed from injuries sustained in a car crash after riding with a drunk driver on Tuesday at 4:45 a.m., according to Nassau County Police. Sylvia was a passenger in the car of Michael Bantel, 27, of Massapequa who crashed head-on into another car in oncoming traffic on Sunrise

Rosa Maria Sinchi, 73, was struck and killed by a car in Port Jefferson Station at 5:05 p.m. on Saturday. The driver, Thomas Sammartino, a 17-year-old male of Port Jefferson Station, was driving his 2002 Honda on North Bicycle Path when his vehicle struck Sinchi. The teenager was uninjured and stayed at the scene, according

A Daily News truck driver was killed in a car accident on Nostrand and Flushing Avenues in Brooklyn on Sunday morning. Jonathan Long, 24, was driving through an intersection when his truck collided with a green outer-borough taxi cab. The collision forced the truck to flip over. Long was found unconscious at the scene and

Several people were seriously hurt and dozens were evaluated for potential injury after a rental truck collided with a car and school bus with children aboard, then careened through the front of a food store in Queens Friday, pinning a customer beneath it and trapping the driver inside, authorities said.  The driver and customer were

Many, if not all, New Yorkers recognize that drinking and driving is dangerous. But few realize that texting and driving (and other forms of distracted driving) can be even more dangerous. That lack of awareness leads to far too many preventable car accidents. A recent survey showed that a majority of young-adult drivers thought texting