New York readers may remember a story about a woman falling to her death on a roller coaster at Six Flags Over Texas earlier this year. The family has brought a lawsuit against Six Flags due to the incident. However, the theme park recently denied any liability for her death. The victim’s family has sued
A Greyhound bus accident along Interstate 80 in central Pennsylvania early Wednesday killed one person and injured more than 40, officials said. The incident happened in Union County south of Williamsport around 1:30 a.m. and five hospitals reported receiving a total of more than 40 patients from the accident. At least four of them were
A 3-year-old was killed after being struck at an intersection in Queens. The incident occurred last night at the intersection of Cherry Avenue and Main Street in Flushing, Queens. According to police, Allison Liao was crossing Main Street by Cherry Avenue with her grandmother when a Nissan that was trying to make a left turn
Officials shut down part of West 57th Street temporarily after a crane stalled Monday at the same luxury tower where a crane boom snapped last year. The crane company, New York Crane, of Maspeth, is owned and operated by James Lomma, who was acquitted last year on charges that he was responsible for a 2008 crane
In 2012, a student from Siena College allegedly caused an accident that killed two high school students and injured two others. On Sept. 27, that student pleaded guilty to 52 felonies and 6 misdemeanors and may be sentenced to a prison term of five to 15 years. It has been reported that the driver was
A man was crushed to death by a forklift at a Queens factory Thursday morning. At about 11 a.m., emergency crews received a call about a man pinned under a forklift he was working on at Raw Equipment on College Point Boulevard in Flushing. When EMS arrived, the man was pronounced dead at the scene.
An off-duty NYPD cop, Joseph McClean, who had been drinking has been arrested after he struck and killed a 51-year-old man, William Hemphill, in Staten Island earlier today. The crash occurred on Richmond Terrace near Simonson Avenue in Mariners Harbor at 6:18 a.m. Police said the 29-year-old officer was driving east on Richmond Terrace when he hit
Fire department retrieved people stranded in a seven-story 2nd Avenue building after the stairwell collapsed this past weekend. A man was taken to Bellevue Hospital in critical but stable condition. Over 30 college-aged students had gathered on the roof of 159 2nd Avenue at E. 9 St. in the lower East Side on Saturday night
Police say 21-year-old Genielle Laboriel was skateboarding in a bike lane along Melrose Avenue when the bus went to make a right turn and pinned her under its wheels at 160th Street. The police are still investigating this accident, however criminal charges are not likely given the failure of police to charge drivers with any
A 58-year-old steamfitter working at an upstate New York wastewater treatment plant was killed by an accidental explosion, according to police and the man’s family. His on-the-job injuries were sustained during a fiery blast that occurred while he and another worker were welding a pipe inside a storage tank. The steamfitter suffered third-degree burns over
