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Four people were hospitalized Thursday after a dramatic school bus crash in Brooklyn.   The yellow bus, carrying just the driver and a matron, was on Atlantic Ave. near Hicks St. about 1:30 p.m. when it slammed into another vehicle, flipped on its side, and then hit the front end of a pickup truck. The

Thirty-five people were injured on the Bronx River Parkway last night because of a multi-vehicle pile-up. The crash occurred around 11 p.m. near Desmond Avenue in Westchester County. Yonkers police and firefighters teamed up with the county police along with multiple ambulances to clear the Desmond Avenue accident Sunday night. Being involved in such a large

Suffolk County Police are investigating a motor vehicle crash that killed a 78 year-old Mount Sinai woman on Sunday. Marylou Pinto, 78, was driving a 2007 Kia eastbound on North Country Road when her vehicle apparently crossed over into the opposite lane of travel, near Shore Road in Mount Sinai, at approximately 4 p.m.  The Kia collided

A New York traffic enforcement agent was killed while on the job on Nov. 30 after a vacuum truck hit him. Reports say that the 71-year-old man became trapped underneath one of the truck’s tires. A witness explained that the death was a freak accident. According to the account, the man was clipped by the

Just like many of our clients and their family member, a city bus struck and killed a 75-year-old Bronx woman Friday,   Gloria Mabry was hit at 6:45 p.m. by a BX38 bus as it made a left turn from Co-op City Blvd. onto Dreiser Loop. Mabry ended up getting caught under the rear wheels of the

Five people were hurt and taken to area hospitals after a crash involving two cars under the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway Tuesday morning. Passengers hobbled away from their two badly damaged cars after they collided on Meeker Avenue near Graham Avenue about 6 a.m. The five people were taken to Bellevue, Elmhurst and Woodhull hospitals. The attorneys at

A Bronx mother has died after being struck by a teenage driver right before Thanksgiving. 55 year-old Maria Lucaj was taken off life support at Jacobi Medical Center. Lucaj was crossing the intersection of Neil Avenue and Williamsbridge Road in Morris Park when a 19-year-old girl made a left turn and hit her. The family

 Two women were struck and killed by a minivan on Staten Island  Wednesday night. The two women, identified as 47-year-old Marion Anderson, from Bath Beach, and 59-year-old Lizette Sorrano, from Arrochar, were crossing Forest Hill Road near the New Springville Little League around 5:30 p.m. when they were struck by a 59-year-old man driving a 2013 Honda

A single-car crash Saturday in Far Rockaway left a 15 year-old dead and another in critical condition.   A 2009 Toyota Corolla carrying three teenagers spun out of control shortly after 3 a.m. on Saturday. The passenger-side struck a concrete pillar that supports the elevated S train near Rockaway Freeway and Beach 41st St.