Recent data reveals that out of all New York City streets, Broadway, one of the city’s most famous, has the highest number of incidents of fatal car accidents involving pedestrians. The Tri-State Transportation Campaign conducted a study of accidents from 2010 to 2012 and found that 420 pedestrians in New York City were killed during
New York City earned its reputation as “The City That Never Sleeps” the hard way. As residents seem to be in continual motion, thousands of buses, taxis, trucks and emergency vehicles pose a constant hazard to each other and to the city’s many pedestrians and bicyclists. In mid-January, Police Commissioner William Bratton and other city
A pedestrian was struck and killed by a city bus at a busy intersection on Broadway in Jackson Heights Monday night. The Q53 bus making a right turn heading southbound on Broadway struck the woman near 74th Street about 6 p.m. The 39 year-old man driving the bus was not charged. The front window of
A 73 year-old man was struck and killed by a construction vehicle plowing snow in front of his Brighton Beach building Monday afternoon. The privately operated plow was backing up on Oceana Terrace between Oceana Drive West and Brighton Beach Avenue when it struck Stanislav Chernyshov as he was crossing Oceana eastbound. Chernyshov, who lived at
Toyota Camry owners in New York may be interested to learn that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has begun probing numerous safety-related complaints regarding the vehicle. More specifically, at least 30,000 Camry Hybrid sedans from 2007 and 2008 are under evaluation following reports of losses to their assisted braking capability – 40 percent of
A Bronx man who went to Saint Barnabas Hospital to get his rash checked out was found dead in the emergency room waiting room after an eight hour wait. John Verrier, 30, went to St. Barnabas at 10 p.m. last Sunday night; he was found dead by a security guard around 6:40 a.m. the next
An 84 year-old woman who was struck by an MTA bus in Forest Hills lost part of her leg and faces months of therapy after an accident that transit advocates say could have been avoided. Gertrude Schnabel, a retired Woodhaven resident, went to a Forest Hills doctor’s office on Wednesday, January 15, after which she decided
A man died in front of his nephews Sunday night when a drunk driver slammed into him with his SUV. James Benedict, 67, was walking with some nephews in a bicycle lane on Lily Pond Avenue when a 2004 Lexus SUV hit him from behind about 6:55 p.m. near Guilford Street. Benedict was rushed to Staten Island
A 36-year-old woman was injured after being hit by a falling metal pipe near the intersection of Madison Avenue and 42nd Street. According to reports, the woman had just left a cafe when she was struck outside of a fast food restaurant at about 8:30 a.m. Her injuries are reported to be serious and included
A woman crossing Second Avenue Saturday morning was struck and dragged by a cement mixer, severing her leg below the knee. Ernesto Mejia, 52, of Jackson Heights, was turning right on the avenue from 68th Street in a Queens Ready Mix Concrete Company truck about 10 a.m. when he hit a 63-year-old woman who was
