Category: Car Accidents
If you’ve been involved in a motor vehicle accident in New York, you’ll want to make sure to obtain an official copy of the accident report that was filed with the state. This report will be essential when dealing with your own insurance company for repairs after the crash, and
An off-duty NYPD officer was killed in a crash at 2:30 a.m. on Saturday on the FDR Drive. Two passengers in the vehicle were ejected from the car and landed in the FDR’s southbound lanes. Both were severely injured and were immediately transported to Bellevue Hospital for treatment. According to
News 12 Long Island reported on November 5, 2019, that at least five people were injured in a five-vehicle accident in Commack that shut down the Long Island Expressway for most of the day. Police said that the driver of a 2012 Toyota Highlander westbound on the Long Island Expressway
An average of two people are killed each day in red-light running crashes across the U.S., and the epidemic shows no signs of slowing down. According to a new study from the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, collisions caused by red light running has reached a ten-year high, with 939
Syracuse University men’s basketball coach Jim Boeheim recently agreed to his first interview since he was involved in a fatal accident on Interstate 690 (I-690) that claimed a 51-year-old man’s life on February 20, 2019. Esquire reported on September 11, 2019 that Boeheim attended a two-hour hearing in which the
Though not ready to follow in the footsteps of California and Colorado entirely, a major change to New York law took place in June of 2019. Though not making sale, growth, and distribution legal, the change allowed for New Yorkers to possess significant quantities of weed without facing charges. It
The Boeing 737 Max was a major part of many airline fleets, with tens of thousands of the planes in service across the country. After a deadly accident and terrifying near-misses, an evaluation of the 737 Max revealed design flaws that left the pilot unable to navigate the plane in
For years researchers have noted data supporting the fact that women die at a higher rate than men in automobile accidents. Determining why has proved difficult, but a new study out of the University of Virginia may go a long way in explaining the discrepancy. The study, published in July
The basics of street safety can be taught to children even while they are very young. In most cases, this begins with parents literally holding the child’s hand to cross the street. Slowly but surely the child gains other skills, such as looking both ways and only crossing in crosswalks
Properly flowing traffic is the hallmark of well-designed and implemented roadways. Though this can be difficult to achieve in older neighborhoods, where buildings may have been constructed too close to older streets to allow for proper road widths, city planners should try to minimize the number of skinny streets and
