A woman died in a car accident after she entered the highway the wrong way. Two other people were severely injured. The accident occurred early Sunday morning. The driver of a dark grey SUV entered the North Bound lanes of the Hutchinson River Parkway in Scarsdale the wrong way and…
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Drunk driving and foster care
In many States if you want to become a foster parent, you can not have a DUI or a DWI conviction during the 5 years before you apply. Is this enough to protect foster children? In a recent article, Daniel Pollack, a professor at Yeshiva University’s School of Social Work in New…
NYC auto accident deaths at their lowest, personal injuries at their highest over the first semester of 2017
96 people died and 27,923 suffered personal injuries in 110,992 motor vehicle accidents in New York City during the first 6 months of 2017 based on the most recent statistics released by the NYPD. This is the first time that the number of people dying in NYC traffic accidents during…
Family almost killed after two yellow cabs crash into each other in New York
A one year old baby suffered injuries after being hit by a yellow taxi. The baby was sitting in a stroller next to the parents on the terrace of a restaurant located at 85th Street and Second Avenue in the Upper East Side of Manhattan when the accident happened. Two…
1 dead and 4 injured in two separate Bronx car accidents
A pedestrian died in a Bronx car accident on Friday afternoon. The 77 year old man was trying to cross the Hutchinson River Parkway near the Pelham parkway when he was hit by a car. He was rushed to the hospital where he died. The driver who hit him stayed…
6 pedestrians injured by crazy van driver in Queens, NYC
6 pedestrians were injured including 2 critically in a bizarre van accident in NYC on Saturday afternoon. A crazy van driver in a white religious robe started to accelerate on Brookville Boulevard near 143rd Avenue in Rosedale, Queens, plowing into cars and pedestrians. A teenage boy and a teenage girl were…
Taxi driver arrested after killing pedestrian in New York
An elderly pedestrian was fatally struck by a yellow taxi in New York City on Friday. 80 year old Barbara Horn, an Upper East Side resident, was crossing Third Ave in the crosswalk when she was hit by a taxi. The accident occurred a little bit after 6 PM a…
5 injured in New York car accident
5 people were injured in a collision between a yellow cab and a SUV in Manhattan early Wednesday morning in NYC. Two people were critically injured and two others were in serious condition, the fifth person only suffered minor injury. Among the victim was a two year old baby. An…
New York to study textalyzer to find out if a driver was texting before an accident occured
NY Governor Andrew Cuomo wants to find out if texting and driving accidents in New York could be prevented with the help of a textalyzer. Yesterday the governor announced that he mandated the Traffic Safety Committee to study the possibility of providing police officers with textalyzers. The textalyzer is a…
Two skateboarders fatally struck by a bus and a by car in separate NYC traffic accident this week-end
A skateboarder died after being struck by a bus in New York City last Friday around 6:30 pm. 25-year-old Kevin Zeng was on the sidewalk of the Union Turnpike near Grand Central Parkway in Forrest Hills, Queens, when his skate board rolled into traffic. The young man ran after it.…