Motor Vehicle Accidents

With barely a week before before the start of a new year, Dr. Daniel Cammerman tragically became the 29th cyclist to die while riding on New York City streets in 2019. On Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019, Dr. Cammerman, a 50-year-old pediatrician with the Mount Sinai Health...

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...

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,...

An auxiliary NYPD car slammed into a woman walking on a Queens sidewalk after it ran a red light and was struck by a van proceeding through a green light, causing the cop car to hit a parked vehicle and careen onto the sidewalk on Friday, July 5th, 2019. Video of the...

Yet another cyclist has been mowed down on the streets of New York City after 28-year-old Devra Freelander was struck and killed by a cement truck driver in Brooklyn on Monday, July 1, 2019. Sadly, this marks the 15th cyclist fatality in New York City in 2019,...

68-year-old Albert Geerders of Ronkonkoma was hit and killed by a commercial truck driver in the parking lot of a Nesconset business on Tuesday, May 21, 2019. Multiple outlets report that the truck was backing up at the time the crash occurred. Sadly, Geerders was...

Corey Thomas was riding a motorcycle in the town of Esopus when he was hit by a school bus driver who failed to yield the right of way on the morning of Thursday, April 25, 2019. When authorities arrived on the scene, they found Thomas, a 26-year-old from Kingston,...

Linda Douglas, a 67-year-old mother and grandmother, was struck and killed by the driver of a tractor trailer at the intersection of Flatbush and Nostrand Avenues on the early morning of April 3rd, 2019. The driver fled the scene, but has since been located and...

A 52-year-old man was killed by a dump truck in a hit and run accident in the Bronx, after reportedly fleeing the scene of another car crash which had occurred earlier that same morning. The fatality occurred near the intersection of Country Club Rd. and Mac Donough...

Most New Yorkers already know to be aware and careful when they're near the city's busiest roads, particularly ones that get frequently used by cyclists and pedestrians. In contrast to these busy, multi-lane intersections, it is easy to assume that quiet, residential...