A 63 year old woman died and a 58 year old man is in critical condition after both were involved in two separate car accidents in Brooklyn, NYC, this week-end. The first accident happened at the intersection of Coney Island Ave and Avenue N. Two cars collided and went spinning…
A woman walking next to a New York City road construction site was injured by a three-foot buzz-saw blade that became detached, flew in the air and came shooting down the sidewalk. Construction workers were tearing up the roadway at 48th Street and 9th Ave to repair a water main…
The City Council just passed 11 traffic safety bills to crack down on reckless drivers and reduce accidents related to traffic violence. Drivers who fail to yield to a pedestrian or a cyclist will be punished by a penalty of $50 to $250 and up to 15 days in jail.…
A MTA bus crashed into a truck this morning on Bruckner Blvd at Bryant Ave injuring 8 people, 2 of them seriously. The city bus was crossing left to right when it crashed into the bus which had stopped in the right lane. Read more in the New York Daily…
A toddler fell yesterday from the sixth floor of a Crown St. building near Albany Ave in Brooklyn, New York. He landed on a balcony and later died of his injuries at the hospital. The window where the child fell from was open and didn’t have a guard. (read more…
As part of the Vision Zero Initiative to reduce deaths and injuries related to traffic accidents, New York police officers gave out more than 1000 summonses including 500 for failure to yield to pedestrian between May 5th and May 10th at a dangerous Queens intersection located near 74th street, Roosevelt…
The police started yesterday a two-day crackdown on speeding in NYC. Every month in New York there are approximately 250 traffic accidents related to unsafe speed. In their announcement the police say that drivers should adhere to newly created “arterial slow zones” and “school zones” throughout the city where speed…
A pedestrian was knocked unconscious by a hit and run driver on a Queens sidewalk yesterday night. A security camera from a nearby restaurant captured the hit and run. Police say a white sedan drove up onto the sidewalk while going westbound on 30th Avenue in Astoria, then plowed into…
1 adult was in critical condition and 7 children suffered minor injuries after a school bus crashed into a pole near the intersection of Braddock Ave and Hillside Ave in Queens, NY. The driver was trying to avoid a collision with a car when he hit the pole. Read more…
In their Trial Advocacy column, New York Personal Injury Attorneys Ben Rubinowitz from Gair Gair Conason Steigman Mackauf Bloom and Rubinowitz and Evan Torgan from Torgan & Cooper write: Conducting an effective direct examination of an economist presents several challenges, such as maintaining the jury’s attention through the presentation of…