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Saber Mohamed, 20, was killed by a speeding car in East New York, Brooklyn, according to reports. Mohamed was a passenger in his friend’s Toyota Sienna when a speeding Ford Explorer blew past several stop signs and slammed into the Toyota.   Mohamed was rushed to Brookdale University Hospital where he was pronounced dead. Mohamed’s

Po Chu Ng, 52, was killed when a black SUV struck her while she was crossing Sixth Avenue and West 30th Street around 5:15 p.m.   A 27-year-old male driver was turning left when Ng was struck. The driver remained at the scene.   Ng was transported to Bellevue Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

Three men were killed in two separate car crashes on Monday, officials said.   Carlos Diaz, 39, of the Bronx, and his 39-year-old passenger, whose name has not been released, were killed when their white BMW jumped a guardrail and struck a tree on the Grand Central Parkway in East Elmhurst, police said.   The

One person was injured after a car crash into a salon in the Bronx on Tuesday morning, officials said. According to reports, a silver sedan hit a parked car and then collided into a storefront on 169th Street near Tinton Avenue in the Bronx.   Passerby pulled the bleeding female driver out of the vehicle.

Five police officers were injured after their police vehicles collided into one another in Brownsville, Brooklyn, officials said.   A marked police car and an unmarked police car were responding to an incident involving a foot pursuit when the collision happened on Livonia Avenue and Thomas S. Boyland Street around 2 a.m., police said.  

Olga Ilina, 54, of Fair Lawn, N.J., was fatally killed in a car crash when a man in a stolen minivan drove the wrong way up the Henry Hudson Parkway and struck her car, police said.   Jean Herrera, 23, of Washington Heights, was driving a stolen Dodge Caravan with a 34-year-old man when he

Two people were killed and a child was injured after a chain-reaction crash on the Wantagh State Parkway in Long Island, officials said.   Reina Olivera, 33, was driving her Nissan Murano on the left lane of the highway when she was rear-ended by a Honda CRV around 11 p.m. Tuesday, according to reports.  

Juan Avila, 33, of Jackson Heights, was killed after he was involved in a fatal crash around Sixth Avenue and West 54th Street around 3:41 a.m., police said. The driver, Shiva Sharma, 32, of Wyandanch, was later arrested and slapped with charges although it was unclear what all those charges were.   According to reports,

A 50-year-old woman was in grave condition after she was struck by a car in Staten Island, officials said. The woman, whose identity has not been released, was crossing Amboy Road near Richmond Road around 7 a.m. when a Toyota driven by a 72-year-old man collided into her, officials said.   The driver was attempting

A woman was killed and a man was injured after their car crashed into a parked vehicle in Queens, officials said. The victim of the fatal crash was identified as 83-year-old Amy Huang. She was in the front passenger seat of the car when the accident occurred at the intersection of 91st Street around 2