Car Accidents

Police in Yonkers are searching for the driver of a Mustang who was being chased by cops and involved in a six-vehicle car accident last night.  A K-9 officer was chasing the Mustang in Greenburgh when he T-boned a car, causing the chain-reaction car crash. One car was hit so hard that it ended up

Eight people were hurt in a car accident which involved several vehicles on the west side of Manahattan earlier today.  The car accident happened at the intersection of 11th Avenue and West 20th Street.  A truck and at least three cars were involved.  The police are investigating whether speeding was a contributing factor to this

Deaths as a result of car accidents in New York City spiked in 2012.  This is the largest increase in the last 4 years. Most of the people killed were pedestrians and a large number of deaths in these accidents involved speeding cars. Morgan Levine currently has dozens of cases pending against owners and drivers of cars

A 63-year-old pedestrian was killed in the Bronx yesterday.  Sookja Kim was struck and killed in a car accident on Mosholu Parkway in the Bronx. She was struck by a 22-year-old man who was driving near Bainbridge Avenue.  The pedestrian was pronounced dead on arrival at Saint Barnabus Hospital. This has become an almost daily occurrence

A school bus and taxi cab were involved in a serious car accident on the Grand Central Parkway in Astoria, Queens early this morning.  Injuries have been reported and the police are investigating. Many car accidents in New York City involve taxi cabs.  This is due to the fact there are many taxis on the

A young 18-year-old sanitation worker was killed this afternoon in an accident involving a sanitation truck.  The worker, Bronx resident Luis Camarillo, had his torse crushed by the rear portion of the truck near Plymouth Street. There are special rules and exceptions which sanitation workers have when injured or killed on the job. The attorneys

Changes to the way New York police respond to serious car accidents could help accident victims hold reckless drivers accountable for their actions as well as help city leaders build safer roads. In the past, police in New York City have only investigated car accidents in which at least one person died or was likely

Another woman in her 60s was struck and killed by a tractor-trailer truck earlier this morning.  This current pedestrian accident happened on Hamilton Avenue in the Carroll Gardens section of Brooklyn. The woman was struck by the truck and caught under the wheel according to first responders. As mentioned in our previous blogs, there have

The NYPD is investigating yet another car accident where the pedestrian was struck and killed in the Bronx earlier today.  The man was found unconscious at the intersection of Taylor Avenue and Soundview Avenue in the Bronx.  He was 75. This has become an almost daily occurrence in New York City.  Everyday there is a

A 16-year-old boy was killed and four college students and one other person were injured when a minivan jumped a curb and slammed into them near LaGuardia Community College earlier this morning. Tenzin Drudak, a high school student, was killed in this pedestrian accident with the van.  The van was apparently speeding to make it through