Louis Mata, 32, of Port Chester, was killed when he was struck by a fallen wooden plank at a construction site, police said. He was hit on the premises of the 421 Hudson Street construction site, around 5 p.m., fire officials said. Mata was brought to Lenox Health Greenwich Village with severe neck and
One person was injured after a car wreck at 12th Avenue and 57th Street in Borough Park at around 10:45 p.m., officials said. The hit-and-run driver, Haroon Butt, 27, fled the scene on foot, with his cat in his arms. He later came upon a parked Toyota with keys left in the ignition, and
A driver in a stolen SUV lost control and struck two people on the sidewalk in Brooklyn, police said. Chooi Tan, 51, of Canarsie, was killed in the crash, and her husband was injured, police said. The accident happened at East 94th Street and Avenue K in Canarsie at 12:50 p.m. when a stolen
Elizabeth Wimmer, 58, of Hull Avenue, Bronx, was killed after she was struck by a car going in the opposite direction near Webster Avenue and 233rd Street at 7:47 p.m., officials said. Wimmer was driving with her 5-year-old granddaughter, April, and her 10-year-old sister. When emergency responders arrived, they found the woman unconscious. She
An ambulance driver and a patient were killed in a car crash when the ambulance driver lost control of the vehicle and slammed into an overpass on Southern State Parkway, officials said. The vehicle was heading eastbound on the Long Island highway when it swerved off the road and struck a brick wall at
A driver struck and killed a cyclist on the border of Clinton Hill and Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, police said. The cyclist, Lauren Davis, 34, was riding against traffic on Classon Avenue, when the driver of a red Fiat struck her while making a left turn onto Lexington Avenue at around 8:40 a.m. Davis was
Kevin Tamasar, 32, of Corona, was killed when his car fell off an elevated roadway on the Whitestone Expressway near Astoria Boulevard at 11:41 a.m., police said. Tamasar was driving a 2008 Nissan when he lost control of his vehicle and struck a median. However, the impact of the collision caused the car to
Det. Joseph G. Skowronski, 65, a retired Nassau County police detective, has been identified as the victim of the fatal pedestrian car accident in Carle Place, police said. Skowronski was attempting to cross on foot Old Country Road near Cherry Lane when he was struck by a 1995 Nissan Maxima at around 3:40 p.m.
The driver of a rental car injured six people after crashing the vehicle into a church van in Queens, officials said. The driver of the 2016 Ford rental car went through a stop sign and struck the 2000 Dodge van on Shore Avenue and Princeton Street in Jamaica at around 11 p.m., police said.
A hit-and-run driver was arrested after a fatal car accident in Long Island, police said. Duke Obule, 23, of Cambria Heights, Queens, was arrested an hour later on Hempstead Turnpike, a mile away from the crash site, police said. Officials said he was found without a license. Obule is charged with leaving the scene
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