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
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
A man was killed in a hit-and-run collision on Woodhaven Boulevard early Saturday morning. The man, identified as Yunior Antonio Perez Rodriguez, 35, of Vinegar Hill, was found lying in the roadway of the 11-lane boulevard, near the Jamaica Avenue intersection. He was found unconscious and unresponsive by officers responding to a 911 call and
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
Glenn Dolan of Morgan Levine Dolan obtained a 1.2 million-dollar verdict for the wife a Brooklyn building superintendent who sustained head, neck and back injuries when a portion of her bathroom ceiling collapsed. Her husband was terminated from his job and the Housing Court had issued an Order evicting the couple from their apartment. The defendant argued that
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
An elderly NYPD traffic officer was struck and killed Saturday in a Manhattan retail area during one of the busiest shopping days of the year. The officer, Kalyanarat Ranasinghe, 71, was standing in the parking lane on 44th Street near Fifth Avenue, when a 2013 Freightliner Vacuum truck pulling out of a parking spot hit
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.
