FDNY ambulance and paramedic. Photo: Andrés Correa Guatarasma / Courtesy – A driver accidentally backed up his SUV and hit his three children and three adults yesterday in the Bronx, also hitting a barber shop window, reported the New York police. All the victims were treated at the hospital. The driver was also taken to … Read more
NYPD Highway Enforcement Unit. Photo: Andrés Correa Guatarasma / Courtesy – David Vidal Baquero, a 30-year-old delivery man of Mexican origin, was dramatically killed by a truck in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn (NYC). Vidal was born in New York and had a dream of opening a motorcycle workshop, his widow Rosa María Vidal told NY1 News. … Read more
Inwood, Upper Manhattan neighborhood. NYC. Photo: Fernando Martínez / Impremedia – The NYPD has identified the pedestrians killed in a five-car pileup early yesterday in Upper Manhattan: David Fernandez, 40, and Joel Adames, 31, both well-known in the community. The tragedy began when a luxurious BMW and a Subaru collided with each other on Sherman … Read more
Protected bike lane in NYC. Photo: Andrés Correa Guatarasma / Courtesy – Carling Mott, a 28-year-old man, was killed when he fell off the Citi Bike he was riding and was hit by a tractor-trailer on a street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in broad daylight. Mott was heading west on East 85th … Read more
NYC Highway Police. Photo: Andrés Correa Guatarasma / Courtesy – New data shows that overall, NYC traffic fatalities are now 29% higher than four years ago. This despite “Vision Zero” (Vision Zero), road safety plan created in 2014 by then-new Mayor Bill de Blasio, promised to make the city safer for pedestrians, cyclists and motorists, … Read more
A walker was hit and the driver stopped not to help him, but to rob him as he lay seriously injured on the street in broad daylight in the Bronx. And dramatic video released by the NYPD captured the merciless double attack at 898 East 169th St., just beginning on Saturday, around 6:40 a.m. The … Read more
Night patrol NYPD. Photo: Andrés Correa Guatarasma / Courtesy – A mechanical breakdown ended in tragedy for the young Shannon Campbell, who was run over when the vehicle she was traveling in stopped on a highway in the Bronx (NYC) at dawn. Campbell, 27, was a passenger in a vehicle that stalled inside the painted … Read more
FDNY Ambulance. Photo: Andrés Correa Guatarasma / Courtesy – Isidro Rodríguez was arrested yesterday for allegedly running a red light while speeding, crashing into another car and fatally running over an elderly pedestrian. on the last Memorial Day, the NYPD said. Rodriguez, 36, a resident of Brooklyn, was charged with involuntary manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, … Read more
Suffolk County Police Patrol, NY. Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris / Getty Images – Kristine Mazza was arrested after crashing her car with her girl on board, while allegedly driving under the influence of drugs in Long Island (NY). According to Suffolk County Police, Mazza, 33, of Smithtown, was charged with driving under the influence of drugs, … Read more
NYC school bus. Photo: Andrés Correa Guatarasma / Courtesy – A chartered school bus overturned off a Hutchinson River Parkway off-ramp in the Bronx (NYC) this morning, injuring 36 adults, three of them in serious condition. The bus flipped on its side shortly before 6 a.m. while turning left off exit ramp 1A northbound onto … Read more