4 NYPD auxiliary police officers and a civilian were seriously injured after the police car was struck by another car in Queens, NYC, yesterday afternoon. The accident happened at the intersection of 172nd street and 73rd Ave. Police said they are still investigating the crash.
Read more in the New York Post
A young boy died after he was hit by a minivan on Empire Blvd in Brooklyn, NYC. The minivan driver, 23 year old Elysabeth Mayard, backed up, drove over 5 year old Roshard Charles (picture) and ran away as the mother of the boy was banging on her window asking her to stop. Mayard returned to the scene after she was chased by witnesses who convinced her to come back. She was charged with hit and run, reckless driving and driving through 3 red lights.
Read more in DNA Info New York
A frontal collision between two cars injured the two car drivers and one pedestrian in Great Kills, Staten Island, NYC. The accident happened on Amboy Road near Sherwood Place. One of the cars apparently swerved on to the wrong side of the road and collided with the other car that was traveling in the opposite direction. The two drivers suffered serious personal injury and a pedestrian who was struck and pinned under one of the cars was in critical condition . Read More in the Staten Island Advance
Amboy Road is a dangerous road on Staten Island. Below is a heat map that shows that every month on average there are more than 10 vehicle accidents on this road. There are also 5 dangerous spots where one auto accident or more happens every month at that specific spot.
A car crashed into a store in the Bronx injuring 8 people. According to a witness it seems like the driver who was parked in front of the store hit the gas pedal instead of the break.
Read more on ABC New York News
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A pedestrian was killed and another one suffered severe personal injury in two separate car accidents.
64 year old Kumar Ragunath was crossing Northern Blvd at 40th Road on Saturday night when he was struck by a SUV driver as he was crossing out of the crosswalk. The driver didn’t stop and the pedestrian died at the hospital shortly after the accident. The police are looking for a dark colored Chevy Blazer. Read more in DNA Info New York.
In an another accident a pedestrian who was crossing Rockaway Parkway was struck by a SUV driver who was trying to pass a vehicle making a left turn. Read more in the New York Daily News
Ariel Russo was killed in a car accident last June as she was walking to school with her grandmother. The two pedestrians were on Amsterdam Ave at 97th street when a 17 year old driver with a learners permit jumped the curb and hit the young girl causing her death. The young man was charged with manslaughter. Today Ariel would have been 5 years old. In her memory the city renamed west 97th Street between Amsterdam Ave and Broadway “Ariel Russo’s Place”.
Read more in CBS New York
A car accident that left 7 people injured in Queens, NYC, this weekend is being investigated by NYPD Internal Affairs. Joseph Barriga who was driving a car even though his license had been revoked after 20 suspensions was spotted by the Queens Gang Squad after he blew a stop sign. The cops who were driving an unmarked car tried to pull him over but instead Bariga hit the gas and the cops started to chase him. After a minute of chase the cops were told by their superior to terminate the chase. Two minutes later Barriga blew a red light and slammed into a car with five people in the car. It is not clear if the cops stopped the chase when instructed but they were a block away from the car when the accident happened.
Barriga was charged with reckless endangerment, aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle and several other violations. No disciplinary actions have yet been taken against the cops involved.
Read more in the New York Daily News
Sean Farrell was drunk when he struck two pedestrians in a crosswalk with his car yesterday night in the Bronx, NY. The police determined that Farrell, a city firefighter was drunk as he refused to take a breathalyzer test. Farell was charged with an elevated DWI charge because it is the second time in less than 10 years that he has been caught while driving while intoxicated.
Read more in the New York Daily News.
To reduce the number of car accidents on New York roads and identify drivers with a pattern of dangerous driving, Governor Cuomo announced Today that the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) will now provide prosecutors with information about drivers’ ticket history so they can make a better judgement when looking at a plea for a current driving charge.
So far New York prosecutors were only able to access convictions.
In New York it is common practice for courts and prosecutors to allow drivers charged with a speeding offense to plead those charges down to lesser offenses such as a parking violation. Because prosecutors were missing drivers’ ticket history, potentially dangerous drivers were taking advantage of this loophole to avoid harsher prosecution and stay on the road.
A 34 year old man who fatally struck a 4 year old girl and left the scene of the accident in Staten Island is facing time in jail. The victim and her family were crossing in the middle of the road at a good distance from the corner when the man drove into them. He continued on his way and didn’t turn himself to the police until 16 hours later.
Read more in the Staten Island Advance
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