In 2012 there were more than 100 open lawsuits against the hospital including a dozen alleging patients died due to medical malpractice or negligence. The hospital has financial problems and struggles to stay open. The latest report from the federal Labor Department indicates that some employees have been the victims…
Last year in New York 151 people were struck by subway trains and 53 of them died. There are many reasons why people are being injured or killed by a train: they fall on the tracks after feeling ill, they are pushed by someone else, they loose something on the…
A car driver miraculously suffered only minor injuries after he crashed his car into a Queens beauty salon last week on Thursday night. According to the NY Daily News the car driver was about to leave the gas station across the street when he mixed up the gas pedal with…
A 40 year old woman died from third degree burns and cardiac arrest after a fire ravaged her apartment on the sixth floor of a Jackson Heights building in Queens, NYC early Saturday. Two firefighters were also injured and hospitalized but their lives are not in danger. The investigation is…
A car accident near the Long Island Expressway in Maspeth, Queens, NYC, left 4 men injured on Sunday morning. Three men in their 20ies were riding in a Nissan Sedan when the driver ran a red light and crashed into a Mercedes Benz. The driver of the Mercedes Benz was…
A two year old boy died after he fell out of a window early Sunday morning on Gerard Ave in the Bronx, New York. The window guards were installed as required by New York Law but the 2 year old boy may have climbed over them. The toddler woke up…
Two construction workers were injured in an elevator accident in Greenwich Village on Wednesday after the elevator counterweight snapped causing the elevator to drop half a floor. The two construction workers loaded the elevator with construction material. Some of the construction material which protruded through a hatch in the roof…
A man plunged to his death in the shaft of a broken elevator in an apartment building in Flushing Queens, NYC. The man was moving a small refrigerator and he had called the elevator to bring the refrigerator downstairs. When the doors opened the man didn’t realize that the car…
There were 18,321 motor vehicle accidents in New York City in June according to the recent statistics published by the NYPD. This is the highest number of accidents per month in one year and the second consecutive month that this number is above 18,000. A similar increase in vehicle accidents…
One person was killed in a massive house explosion that happened Tuesday night at 10 Prospect Ave in Port Washington, Long Island,NY. According to CBS New York, one home was completely destroyed and 8 cars were burned. Nearby homes were evacuated and gas was shut down.
