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Four people were injured in a crash involving a fire truck and and another vehicle on Sunday afternoon, fire officials said.   The accident occurred at New York Avenue and Snyder Avenue at 12:36 p.m.   Two people were seriously injured and two people suffered minor injuries from the crash. A firefighter was among the

A concrete-mixing truck struck and injured a mother and her two young children near Junction Boulevard and 55th Avenue in Elmhurst, Queens, police said. The incident occurred near  elementary school P.S. 13, which was close to dismissal time.   The family was taken to Elmhurst Hospital Center, where the 36-year-old mother was treated for a

Thomas Violante, 72, of Great Kills was fatally struck by a driver of a sports utility vehicle, police said. Violante was crossing Hylan Boulevard at Buffalo Street at 9:28 a.m. when the driver of a 2011 Ford Explorer driving northbound on Buffalo Street hit him.   Violante was rushed to Staten Island University Hospital, where

NYPD officer Jonathan Morales, 30, of Long Island, was arrested after an investigation found that he had rear-ended another car and walked away from the scene with blood still on his face from the crash, prosecutors said. The incident occurred on 31st Avenue in Astoria at around 4 a.m. on May 10.   Morales was

A man was killed when his car collided with the back of a tractor-trailer on the Van Wyck Expressway in Queens, police said.   Tarik Williamson, 45, of Waterbury, Conn. was driving on the highway near 73rd Avenue in Kew Gardens when he hit the 2005 Kenworth tractor trailer at high speeds around 5 a.m.,

A 29-year-old man was critically injured after he crashed his scooter in a cab on the Upper East Side, police and witnesses said.   The man was riding on Fifth Avenue near East 85th Street at 3:15 a.m. when he collided with the cab. The victim, who has not been identified, flew off the scooter

Glen Nelson, 48, of Belle Terre, was killed in a crash in his Lamborghini on Sunday, officials said. Nelson was driving his 2008 Lamborghini eastbound on East Broadway in Port Jefferson around 3:40 p.m. when he struck a utility pole on High Street, police said.   Nelson was rushed to St. Charles Hospital in critical

A female passenger of a Porsche was killed after the drunk driver slammed into the back of a parked school bus on Friday at 3:30 a.m., officials and witnesses said. Nara An, 24, of South Korea was the girlfriend of the driver and died at the scene.   Kyong Song, 29, of Island Park, was

A green Ford Explorer injured three people when it made a sharp turn into a McDonald’s drive-thru and hit another car, narrowly missing pedestrians on the sidewalk in Midwood, Brooklyn, witnesses said.   The car was moving northbound on Coney Island Avenue when it turned into the McDonald’s drive-thru on 18th Avenue. As it swerved,

A tour bus crash injured more than two dozen passengers after it crashed and flipped on the I-70 in Washington County, officials said. The bus, which carried 27 passengers, was traveling from New York to Columbus, Ohio when it collided with a Honda sports utility vehicle near the Jefferson Avenue exit.   According to state