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According to traffic data statistics released by the New York Police Department (NYPD), 12 people died in the five boroughs of New York City as a result of motor vehicle accidents. Of these 12, one was a driver, one a passenger and the other 10 were pedestrians....
A new initiative is focused on making it easier and safer to get from Manhattan to the Bronx using one of the 11 bridges that cross the Harlem River. Walkers and bikers face many hurdles when trying cross the river from either side. Vehicles come off the bridges too...
A Nassau County girl with Down Syndrome was killed by a hit-and-run driver early Sunday morning. She was attempting to cross the Hempstead Turnpike, a six-lane highway, possibly in an effort to visit her grandfather a few miles away in Hicksville. She was struck by a...
Around 1:30 a.m. on Saturday March 1, 2014, a woman, later identified by police as Marisol Martinez, 21, was struck and killed by an MTA bus at the intersection of Meeker and Union Avenues in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. We profiled this tragedy earlier and...
This blog has reported before on the difficulty of obtaining usable traffic crash data from NYPD. However, there are several alternative sources. These are operated by private citizens who take the raw data from the PDF files released by the New York Police Department...
Authorities have reported that William Pena, an MTA bus driver, was killed and two people were critically injured when a New York City bus and a box truck collided in Greenwich Village. Fire officials say two other people suffered minor injuries in the bus accident,...
People who were injured in motor vehicle accidents such as motorcycle, bus or car accidents , you may need the accident reports for insurance purposes or if you are thinking about filing a personal injury lawsuit. Here are a few tips that could make obtaining these...
Doctor Samantha Lee was killed on Manhattan's upper-west side over the weekend in yet another pedestrian accident. Dr. Lee, a 26-year-old anesthesiologist resident at the Columbia University Medical Center, was struck and killed right in front of the building where...
The experienced car accident attorneys at Block O'Toole & Murphy listen to accident victims share their concerns every day. Car accident victims often wonder who is legally responsible for an accident. Frequently the rear-end collision is a source of confusion for...
The senseless collision took place on July 9, 2013 near midnight. The intoxicated driver, 22 year old Arielle Szalkowski, was driving westbound on Route 202/35 in Yorktown. She crossed over into the opposite lane of traffic, violently slamming into the helpless victim...
