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What should have been a joyous holiday season for Kimberly Greer and her friends and family was destroyed when she was struck and killed by a charter bus in Lower Manhattan on Thursday, December 20th, 2018. The accident occurred when the bus made a left turn onto...
A truck driver has been arrested for failure to yield and failure to exercise due care after striking and killing a 71-year-old man in a crosswalk at the corner of McDonald Ave. and Cortelyou Road in Kensington, Brooklyn on Wednesday, December 12th, 2018. It was just...
Dozens were injured when a fire truck, which was responding to a medical emergency and which had its lights on and sirens blaring, collided with an MTA bus at the intersection of East 175th Street and Webster Avenue in the Bronx neighborhood of Mount Hope. Shocking...
Tragedy occurred when 81-year-old Gloria Prietto was struck and killed by a dump truck in Bay Shore, Long Island on the morning of Friday, November 16, 2018. The accident occurred on the Sunrise Highway South Service Road near Redmond Avenue. The dump truck in...
Block O'Toole & Murphy is honored to be recognized once again as a Tier 1 New York City law firm for both Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs as well as Product Liability Litigation - Plaintiffs, the highest regional ranking in the 2019 "Best Law Firms" list...
The Manhattan District Attorney's Office has levied charges of felony assault and reckless endangerment against two construction company managers for the East Harlem crane accident which left two construction workers with life-altering brain and spinal injuries and...
After numerous serious and fatal accidents involving private garbage trucks, the NYPD ran a week-long crackdown on the industry and pulled 132 of 142 inspected commercial sanitation trucks off the road for dangerous infractions such as malfunctioning brakes, low tire...
A 43-year-old cyclist is in serious but stable condition after being struck by a private sanitation truck near Rockefeller Center at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 47th Street late Monday night, October 29, 2018. Following the accident, the unidentified man was taken...
An unidentified 35-year-old man was killed when a commercial truck backed over him at Building 151 at the John F. Kennedy (JFK) Airport on the evening of Monday, October 15, 2018. The incident occurred at 8 p.m., and the man was pronounced dead at Jamaica Hospital...
Alberto Leal was tragically struck and killed by a Department of Sanitation (DSNY) garbage truck driving the wrong way down Brooklyn Avenue, a one-way road, on the morning of Thursday, October 11, 2018 in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Surveillance video captured the...
