A six-lane stretch of the 87-year-old Bronx River Parkway has earned a dangerous designation with the New York State Department of Transportation. The parkway section is considered one of the least safe roads in the state.
AAA of New York City said the state's poor safety ranking for the parkway was confirmed after a horrendous car accident that killed seven members of a Bronx family. The recent fatal accident was the second in one year in which a vehicle dived six stories into a ravine.
Determining negligence in a car accident is not as cut and dried as many people believe. A driver's purposeful carelessness is a clear indicator of fault, but even drivers with good intentions may be held liable for causing accidents and injury.
Recently, a jury had to decide whether a Harrison volunteer firefighter could be held responsible for a crash that seriously injured a woman five years ago. The fireman was responding to an emergency call when the accident occurred.
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A horrific crash south of Rochester last summer claimed two lives and injured dozens of tourists from India on a tour bus trip to Niagara Falls. A man and his teenage daughter, survivors of the bus accident, recently filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit that holds the bus owners and operators liable for the crash.
The $40 million suit was brought by the 17-year-old daughter and husband of one of the bus accident victims who died in fatal accident. The family's lawyer stated his clients were traumatized after being thrown around during the accident and forced to climb over injured and dead bodies to escape the wreckage.
A 57-year-old woman and her grandson were walking home recently from an evening church service at Our Lady of Mount Carmel-St. Benedicta Church in Staten Island. The pair began to walk across Cary Avenue in West Brighton around 10 p.m. as a dark-colored car sped toward them. The alleged negligence of an inattentive driver resulted in a fatal accident.
The 8-year-old boy later said it appeared the driver in a Ford Escape was "talking to somebody." The child said the car kept coming and did not slow down.
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A New York City woman died when the livery car in which she was riding in crashed into a tractor-trailer and burst into flames on Central Park Avenue. State police investigating the Friday morning truck accident are working with information that suggests the livery car was in reverse when the collision occurred.
The wreck took place around 5:50 a.m. just prior to the Cross County Parkway ramp in Yonkers. Accident investigators are considering witness accounts that indicate the livery car was committing a traffic violation, backing up along Central Park Avenue to access a missed exit at Cross County.
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Sheriff's deputies in Putnam County will consider whether a Mahopac driver was distracted or stricken by a medical condition as part of an ongoing investigation into a fatal accident. The driver was involved in a head-on collision that claimed the life of a man on his way to work.
The accident occurred around 8 a.m. Police report that a Ford Focus, driven by a young Brewster man, crashed straight-on into a sport utility vehicle that was traveling the wrong way on Route 22 southbound near Deans Corner Road. The driver of the Ford was pronounced dead at the scene of the car accident.
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Inattention and carelessness is often blamed on young and inexperienced drivers, but extensive experience behind the wheel is no guarantee that a driver is roadworthy. The slower reaction time and sensory limitations of some more seasoned drivers can also be hazards; contributing to car accidents involving damage, injury and wrongful death.
Brooklyn police say an 80-year-old driver careened down 73rd Street in a Mercedes-Benz, struck two vehicles and sent a bicyclist to the hospital with life-threatening injuries.
A new report from the Tri-State Campaign for Transportation details the number of fatal accidents involving pedestrians in New York City. The study's authors compiled a list of the most dangerous roads and made recommendations, based on data between 2008 and 2010.
Broadway was the most deadly road for non-driving victims. Thirteen pedestrians died along Broadway in Manhattan during the two years. Seven additional pedestrians lost their lives in motor vehicle accidents on Broadway in the Bronx.
Neighbors and family members are saddened and in shock following the hit-and-run car accident that took the life of a Brooklyn woman. The 69-year-old home health care worker died a block from her home as she was headed from a food shopping trip.
Witnesses and police reports say a drunk driver ran down the elderly woman during the weeknight evening hours and sped away. People who saw the church-going, mother-of-seven get hit by a Mazda 2000 say the groceries the pedestrian was carrying remained scattered over Wortman Avenue the following day. The deadly crash on Wortman Avenue near Barbey Street in Brooklyn tossed the pedestrian victim 30 feet.
An upstate New York judge ruled that the deaths of four passengers in an accident aboard a Megabus in Syracuse were not the fault of the bus driver. Criminal prosecutors in the non-jury trial attempted to prove that the fatal accident was caused by negligence.
The 2010 double-decker bus accident occurred on Onondaga Lake Parkway, where the Megabus crashed into a low CSX railroad bridge. The defense attorney for the 60-year-old bus driver told the judge his client did not see the posted signs warning about vehicle height clearance for the bridge.
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