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7 Officers, 1 Civilian Injured In Chain-Reaction Car Crash On FDR

Seven officers and one civilian were hospitalized with minor injuries after four police vehicles were involved in a car accident on FDR Drive in East Harlem.   The officers were traveling in convoy southbound on East 116th Street when a civilian car ahead of them slowed down and caused the first police car to rear-end

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Mother Killed In Christmas Car Crash

Diane Lamache, 26, was killed in a car accident after her drunken and stoned boyfriend slammed his car into a tractor trailer in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Eloy Perez, 27, the boyfriend of Lamache, was driving along Vandervoort Avenue when he crashed into a tractor trailer pulling out of a parking lot.   Lamache suffered severe head

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Several Injured After NJ Transit Bus Crashes Into Tree

Roughly 25 people were treated for non-life threatening injuries after an New Jersey Transit Bus carrying 31 passengers crashed into a tree on Monday afternoon, officials said. The accident occurred around 2 p.m. at Wainwright Street and Lyons Avenue.   “I ran out of the store along with one of the workers in the store

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Two Child Passengers Injured After Drunk Woman Crashes Car In L.I.

Latanya Mowatt, 25, of Deer Park was involved in a car crash that sent her 6-year-old niece flying out of the vehicle and also injured her 8-year-old daughter, officials said. The allegedly drunk woman was driving her 2004 Nissan Maxima on Brookdale Avenue when she lost control of her car and crashed into a utility

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East Hampton Man Identified In Fatal Bridgehampton Bus Crash

Cesar Marin, 27, of East Hampton, was identified as the driver who died in a Bridgehampton car accident involving a Suffolk County transit bus Friday morning, according to reports.   Marin was driving on Montauk Highway when he lost control of his car “due to icy roadway conditions,” officials said. The 2002 Chevrolet Trailblazer went

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Runaway Taxi Kills Woman On Midtown Sidewalk

A 22-year-old woman was struck and killed by a runaway taxi on a Midtown sidewalk last week. According to officials, the taxi driver parked and stepped out of his vehicle to help a passenger around West 51st Street and Eighth Avenue around 8:30 p.m. Police are trying to determine what caused the vehicle to roll,

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School Bus Injures 7 After Overturning From Crash

Six children and one adult were injured after their yellow school bus crashed with another vehicle and overturned in Brooklyn, police said. The accident occurred on Fourth Avenue and First Street in Park Slope at around 3 p.m., officials said.   The bus was driving along Fourth Avenue when it tried to make a left

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Three Pedestrian Crashes In Same Afternoon Leaves 1 Dead, 3 Injured

A van fatally struck a 77-year-old woman as she crossed a street in Brooklyn, according to reports. The accident occurred at East 21st Street and Gravesend Neck Road in Sheepshead Bay, when the 2005 Ford Econoline delivery van made a left turn and struck the woman. The incident was one out of three accidents involving

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Man Fatally Crushed By LES Elevator After Rescuing Woman

Stephen Hewett-Brown, 25, was killed by a faulty elevator on the Lower East Side after he pushed a woman out of harm’s way, witnesses said. The accident happened in the elevator at 131 Broome Street at around 11:45 p.m.   Hewett-Brown was inside the elevator when tenant Erudi Sanchez, 43, and her 10-year-old nephew stepped

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Man Charged In Fatal Greenpoint Car Crash

Elroy Perez, 27, of Brooklyn, was arrested and charged for the fatal car crash that claimed the life of his passenger in Greenpoint on Wednesday morning. Perez was under the influence of drugs and speeding when he crashed his car into the side of a tractor trailer that was getting out of a parking lot

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