An elderly woman died and her husband is in critical condition after both got hit several times in a freaky car accident at a Brooklyn car wash in New York City. Tuesday afternoon around 3:00 pm, an elderly couple brought their car to a car wash located next to the…
Since Vision Zero started in 2014, NYC traffic fatalities decreased by 28% while nationally they went up by 15%. According to the Fourth Vision Zero Annual Report that was recently released by the de Blasio Administration, the decline was the strongest in pedestrian deaths. They went down by 45% since the…
Falls are the number one cause of death in the construction industry. In 2016, a total of 991 hard hats died in construction accidents. Almost 40% of them, 370, lost their life after they fell from a height. Most of these accidents may have been prevented. To increase awareness and…
A Queens Village family who was celebrating an upcoming wedding was caught in a massive fire that quickly ravaged their house killing 3 of them and injuring many others. The house located on 211th Street and 93rd Road didn’t seem to have working smoke detectors. 32 year old Harleen Maggo…
An 86 year old driver fatally struck a young pedestrian in a crosswalk on Northern Boulevard Queens, NYC, and left the scene of the accident. He was chased by a taxi driver who was able to stop him several blocks away. The accident occurred last Saturday Afternoon around 1:20 pm.…
A cyclist who was hit by a cab in New York nine days ago has died from his injuries. On April 16th, 42-year-old Amaury Pena was riding his bike on East 39th Street by the exit of the Midtown tunnel. He was hit by a taxi heading North on Tunnel…
A young pedestrian died after being struck by a van on a Bronx sidewalk in New York City. 8 year old Cellou Diallo was part of a group of children that just came out of a van that had parked on East 125th Street in Williamsbridge . As they were…
A cyclist died after he was hit by a truck that never stopped. The accident occurred at the intersection of Webster Ave and the ramp of the Cross Bronx Expressway in the Tremont section of the Bronx. The bicyclist was riding to the right side of a white box truck…
A woman died in a plane accident. 43 year old Jennifer Riordan, a mother of two and a Wells Fargo bank executive was sitting in a plane that just took off from Laguardia airport when one of the engines exploded. Shrapnel blew out the window where she was sitting nearly…
Two women died after their home caught fire in Queens, NYC. The two women were an elderly mother and her daughter living on Wheatley Street in Far Rockaway. The two women had been living in the house for 20 years. The mother was around eighty years old. Her daughter was…