On Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019, six people and three companies were charged for their role in the death of construction worker Luis Almonte Sanchez in a 2018 accident. All six defendants plead not guilty to their charges. In September 2018, Sanchez was...
Month: November 2019
Peapod Grocery Delivery Truck Crashes into Staten Island Home
In a bizarre accident, a Peapod grocery delivery truck ran off the road, overturned, and crashed into a Staten Island home around 7:15 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 20. On his way to deliver groceries in the neighborhood of Great Kills, the 55-year-old driver of the...
Kelley Blanchard Killed, Three Others Injured in Tragic Boating Accident
One person was killed and three were injured shortly after 9 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 10, 2019 in a tragic boating accident on Long Island. The driver of the boat, 48-year-old Francesco Distefano, was charged with boating while intoxicated. The weekend outing went...
4 Workers Injured, 1 Seriously, in Scaffolding Collapse at 50 Hudson Yards
On Monday morning, November 11, 2019, at least four construction workers were injured, one seriously, in a scaffolding collapse accident at 50 Hudson Yards in New York City. Police and FDNY responded to a call received around 7:30 a.m. about an incident in which four...
Wrestler Matt Travis’s Life Tragically Cut Short in Hit and Run
Saturday, November 9, 2019 marks another tragedy in New York. At around 2:30am, 25-year-old Matt Travis was riding his bicycle in the bike lane at the foot of the Willis Avenue Bridge in East Harlem when a Kenworth dump truck, traveling southbound along First Avenue,...
Frankie Torchia Dies in 4-Story Roof Fall in Clark Mills, N.Y.
On the morning of Tuesday, October 29, 2019, Frankie Torchia went to work and tragically never returned home. Torchia, a 33-year-old construction worker from Utica, and a coworker were in the process of setting a 30-foot piece of metal on the roof of a four-story...
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