Anil John, 17, a Long Island college student and former Islip high school basketball player, was fatally struck by a car when he got out of his own vehicle to check it after a separate hit-and-run crash, officials said. John pulled over on Crooked Hill Road near Suffolk County Community College after a fender-bender
A pregnant mom died after being fatally struck by a car on Staten Island, officials said. Shannon Lies, 31, was leaving her job as a waitress at Mike’s Place Diner in Annandale when a car going westbound on Hylan Boulevard hit her at about 11 p.m. on Monday. “She just left work and was
The driver of a coach bus that crashed into a tractor trailer on the I-95 has died on Wednesday afternoon, officials confirmed. Henry J. Woolfson, 31, of Hackensack, N.J., was killed when his bus rear-ended a truck near southbound Exit 14. Woolfsen was pinned in the bus and had to be extricated by firefighters
One woman died and another woman and a two-year-old girl were critically injured in a fatal car crash involving at least two cars in Queens, according to reports. The accident occurred around 6 p.m. on Atlantic Avenue and 108th Street in Richmond Hill, Queens. A 43-year-old woman driving in a white SUV was traveling
A woman was struck by a New York University bus at the intersection of 3rd Avenue and 10th Street in Manhattan on Tuesday afternoon, according to reports. The woman, who was identified as being in her mid-30s, was taken away on a stretcher in an ambulance. The extent of her injuries was not known.
Officials positively identified Francisca Figueroa, 48, as the missing person who was pulled out of the rubble of a leveled Brooklyn building on Monday, sources said. Figueroa had been missing since Saturday when an explosion in her second floor apartment caused the building to collapse. Investigators initially believed that the explosion came from a
Bronx Hospital worker Anthony Iuso, 44, was found dead inside a bathroom days after he went to the emergency room to get treated for an injured finger, sources said. Iuso was found locked inside a bathroom at Montefiore Medical Center where he worked. Last Thursday, Iuso left his post on the third floor of
Former “Real Housewives of New York” star Jill Zarin, 51, was knocked unconscious and hospitalized in New York City on Friday after getting into a car crash on FDR Drive, according to various sources. Zarin was with her publicist in the back seat of a car service riding from her Upper East Side home
The train tracks where an Amtrak train derailed as a result of a rockslide in Vermont on Monday has had 54 accidents since 2006, including 14 derailments, according to the New York Times. According to federal records, the New England Central Railroad has had four accidents that involved debris on tracks since 2006. Since
A southbound Amtrak train left seven people injured in a derailment in central Vermont on Monday morning. There have been no reported deaths, officials said. The accident occurred in the town of Northfield, just 10 miles south of the state’s capital, Montpelier. “The car was shaking from side to side and I could tell
