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 high school athlete and his cheerleader girlfriend died after a single-car wreck in New Jersey on Saturday. Jeffrey Szatkowski, 17, was driving a 2004 Mustang with his sweetheart, 18-year-old Nicole Surace, sitting in the passenger seat when he suddenly lost control of the car and drove off an East Brunswick road. The sports
A Liverpool mother was killed and her three children were seriously injured after a head-on collision in Clay on Nov. 24. The woman’s husband and father of her two youngest children also sustained life-threatening injuries in the crash. Following the fatal car accident, police charged the wrong-way driver who was responsible with vehicular manslaughter. The
Metro-North said the 5:54 a.m. train from Poughkeepsie, which was due in to Grand Central Terminal at 7:43 a.m., derailed at about 7:20 a.m. The Metro-North train derailed Sunday morning at Spuyten Duyvil station in the Bronx, the New York Fire Department said. This is the second accident involving a Metro-North train in the last year.
A 72-year-old woman was badly injured in Brooklyn on Monday afternoon by a DirecTV van operated by an unlicensed driver. Maude Savage was crossing Sutter Ave. near her home in East New York around 12:25 p.m. when she was hit by a 2004 Chevy DirecTV van, which was making a left from Euclid Ave. Robert
Two pedestrians were hospitalized after the sign from a large discount department store in Brooklyn fell from the building’s facade, along with a piece of the roof, on Sunday morning as high winds blew through the city. Employees at M&S Bargain Hunters, on the corner of Fulton Street and Bedford Avenue in Bed-Stuy, said they heard a loud noise and
A drunk driver was arrested after he struck and killed a 65 year-old man that was crossing St. Nicholas Avenue on Sunday morning. Julien Prince, 23, was driving a gray Honda Accord south on St. Nicholas when he hit 65-year-old Willie Zachary who was crossing the street. Zachary, who lived on the block, lay unresponsive in
A hit-and-run driver struck and killed a 47-year-old Brooklyn man as he crossed the street on Friday night. Vernon Sylvester Bramble, 47, who lived in Crown Heights, was crossing Flatbush Avenue near East 34th Street when he was struck around 10:29 p.m. and left for dead by the driver of an unknown southbound black vehicle.
A 23 year-old man was struck and killed by two vehicles near the Little Italy section of Canal Street on Friday afternoon. Police responding to a 911 call at 2:32 p.m. found the man, identified as Cheikh Mbaye, 23, of Morningside Heights, lying in the roadway near Greene Street unresponsive. Mbaye was rushed to Presbyterian
While New York residents may be happy to hear that, according to information from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the number of young adults who die in car accidents has dropped, there is little else that is good news in crash data from 2012. The number of people between the ages of 16- and
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