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 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
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
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,
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 New York-bound Amtrak train derailed on Tuesday night near Philadelphia, killing seven people and injuring dozens more. On Wednesday morning, at least 65 people were hospitalized, including eight who were listed in critical condition, according to Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter. The train had 243 passengers on board, including five crew members. The train
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.
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.”
