During Memorial Day weekend, three people were killed in separate car accidents throughout New York City. Ian Paul Blubb, 49, of Flatlands, Brooklyn, was struck by a 1999 Jeep Cherokee on Rockaway Parkway at around 10:20 p.m. on Friday. The police found Blubb lying on the road outside the crosswalk, according to reports. He
A European tourist was hit and killed by a bus in Manhattan on Wednesday, according to reports. Authorities said that the charter bus, run by the United Coach Line operator, was parked outside of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine on Amsterdam Avenue between West 112th Street and West 113th Street. The bus
With ownership comes responsibility. Every New Yorker who owns a home, a piece of property or who runs a business that is open to the public has a responsibility to keep their premises reasonably safe. If they do not and it leads to an accident, they may have to pay to make it right. Consider
A collection of open city data on pedestrian car collisions from 2011 through 2015 revealed the most dangerous places to walk in New York City. The data confirmed that areas with reduced speed limits have fewer collisions, Fast Company reported. A personal injury law firm used city pedestrian data to map out accidents in
A passenger was killed and four others were injured in a collision between an ambulette and a minibus near the Palisades Center Mall, in West Nyack, on Thursday. Vincent Careccio, 48, who was being transported in the ambulette, was killed in the accident. The driver of the ambulette, Jean Santilme, 42, was the only
Many New Yorkers have done it: they have glanced at their cell phone, fiddled with the radio or checked out people in another nearby vehicle. What is the harm of that? After all, it only takes a moment. But according to a new study, even a moment can be dangerous; it just depends what happens
As news develops of just how big the toll was in Tuesday’s Philadelphia Amtrak train derailment, more names were revealed of the seven crash victims on Wednesday evening. Rachel Jacobs, 39, a chief executive officer of Philadelphia-based education technology company ApprenNet, had lost her life during the wreck. Although she works in Philadelphia, she
A final body was recovered from the wreckage of the Philadelphia Amtrak train derailment on Thursday, bringing the death toll to eight and more than 200 people injured. By Thursday afternoon, all of the names of the victims had been released. Laura Finamore, 47, who worked in corporate real estate at Cushman & Wakefield,
By midday Wednesday, officials were still scrambling to account for all of the passengers in the Philadelphia Amtrak derailment accident. Those who came out of the train told a harrowing tale of twisted metal, flying objects, and bloodshed. “Everything was normal,” passenger Daniel Wetrin, 37 of New York, told CNN. “Then it was chaos.”
A U.S. Naval Academy midshipmen from Queens and an Associated Press staffer were among the seven dead in the Philadelphia Amtrak train derailment that also left 200 people injured, according to various media sources. Midshipmen Justin Zemser, 20, was among those killed in the ill-fated Amtrak crash, his mother, Susan, and the Naval Academy confirmed.
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