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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 60-year-old driver, whose identity has not yet been released, died after his car slammed into an MTA bus near St. John’s University campus in Jamaica, Queens on Monday evening, officials said. Two other people were injured in the accident.   The car wound up on the wrong side of the median on Union Turnpike

A 17-year-old boy was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver on Northern Boulevard Tuesday evening, officials said.   Jaremello Ovidio of East Elmhurst was crossing the street at Junction Boulevard and Northern Boulevard when the driver of a black Toyota Camry struck him. The driver continued to drive west along Northern Boulevard, police said.

A damning number was revealed last Wednesday. Of the 4,000 hit-and-run car accidents that resulted in injuries or deaths this year, only 44, or one percent, of the accidents has been investigated by the police, according to Inspector Dennis Fulton of the NYPD’s Transportation Bureau.   Of the 44 cases that the NYPD collision investigation

One man died and his passenger was critically injured when their car sput out of control and slammed into a median in Queens on Sunday evening, officials said.   Jorge Bermudez, 30, was driving his silver car at Laurel Hill Boulevard and 49th Street under the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in Maspeth when he lost control of

An 85-year-old woman, who has not been identified, was critically injured after she was struck by a Time Warner van in Staten Island on Thursday morning, officials said.   She was crossing the street at Christopher Lane and Victory Boulevard in Graniteville when a white van made a left turn on Christopher and struck her,

A 34-year-old woman was in critical condition after she was struck by a car in Brooklyn on Wednesday morning, police said. The victim, whose identity has not been revealed, was crossing Flatbush Avenue Extension near Gold Street and Myrtle Avenue along with a male friend when a car hit her.   According to police, the

An elderly woman, believed to be in her late 70s or 80s, was seriously injured after she was struck by a private garbage truck in Midtown early Wednesday morning, officials said.   The women, whose identity has not been released, was crossing East 58th Street and Third Avenue when the truck clipped her. She was

A female pedestrian was killed after she was struck by a car that swerved onto a Brooklyn curb on Sunday evening, officials said. Victoria Nicodemus, 30, of Brooklyn Heights, was mortally wounded from the car accident. Four other pedestrians, including Nicodemus’ boyfriend, were also injured.   Marlon Sewell, 39, of Brooklyn, was the driver of

Michael McBean, 24, was charged with second-degree manslaughter, leaving the scene of a fatal accident, attempted robbery, obstructing governmental administration and disorderly conduct after his car struck and killed a retired police officer, injured a dozen other individuals, and damaged cars on Thanksgiving night in East New York, Brooklyn, according to the New York Times.