A man was hospitalized after he was struck by a cab on the West Side Highway Friday morning. The crash occurred about 7:40 a.m. at West and Christopher streets and left the man with injuries to the upper body. The man, whose identity was not immediately known, suffered non-life-threatening injuries and was taken to Bellevue Hospital Center. Our law firm
High wind apparently caused a scaffolding to collapse shortly after 10:00 a.m. on 40th Street between Broadway and 7th Avenue in Midtown, injuring 3 people. West 40th Street remained closed to vehicular traffic in the area shortly before noon. The scaffolding landed on three people. Two good samaritans helped pull the debris off of two
Four children had injuries after a truck crashed into a school bus and caused it to flip over on Staten Island earlier this morning. The children, along with a bus matron and the driver, were taken to the hospital after the crash near Oakdale Street and Preston Avenue in Eltingville around 8 a.m. The attorneys of
A cyclist was killed in the Claremont section of the Bronx early this morning. A 36 year-old man was biking west on St. Paul’s Place at around 6:38 a.m. when he was struck by the driver of a vehicle traveling north on 3rd Avenue. The unidentified man was pronounced dead at the scene, and the
New York readers may be interested to know that there’s something dangerous lurking in NFL locker rooms that is causing players harm. No, it’s not a slip and fall in a wet shower, but Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus , commonly known as MRSA. It is a staph infection that is usually spread by physical contact or
Last night, 50-year-old Shiela Rivera was struck by the driver of a 1998 Honda CRV as she crossed Pennsylvania Avenue at the intersection of Glenmore Street. Rivera, who lived a little more than 7 blocks away, was pronounced dead at Brookdale Hospital. The driver of the vehicle who struck Rivera remained on the scene. An
The family of a Brooklyn man who died shortly after consuming a Red Bull is suing the company for $85 million, claiming that the energy drink gave the otherwise healthy father a fatal heart attack. 33-year-old Cory Terry was playing a game of basketball at Bed-Stuy’s Stephen Decatur Middle School in 2011 when he drank
A man was struck and killed while crossing a busy South Jamaica Street Monday evening. The unidentified victim was crossing Jamaica Avenue, near 180th Street, midblock when a 2008 Honda CRV plowed into him around 7:50 p.m. The attorneys at Morgan Levine Dolan represent many pedestrians struck by vehicles in the City of New York.
One person was killed and one other person injured in an accident on the Southern State Parkway on Friday. The accident was between a Mazda and a Suzuki SUV just west of Grand Avenue in Hempstead, after 6:30 a.m. The Mazda struck the Suzuki from behind and then traveled through the guiderail on the south
A New York City taxi driver struck and seriously injured a pedestrian yesterday in Soho. The driver, Kah-Am Rahaman, was quoted as saying when he turned his cab, the glare from the sun blinded him and he struck a pedestrian who was crossing the street. This avoidable accident happened at the corner of Spring Street
