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On the morning of Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021, a terrible accident occurred in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. A 24-year-old woman, identified as Molly Pearson, was riding a Lime scooter on Meeker Avenue next to a box truck. Pearson and the box truck were both traveling in the same...
On Monday, October 4, 2021, 81-year-old Elizabeth Hyman was crossing the street on the Upper East Side, in the crosswalk at 72nd Street and Third Avenue. As she was crossing, a school bus struck her while making a right-hand turn. Although she was immediately...
Tragically, yet another pedestrian in New York was struck and killed while simply trying to cross the street. On the evening of Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2021, 68-year-old Ruth Mullen was crossing in the crosswalk near her Bronx home, when she was struck by an MTA bus making...
57 people were injured on Saturday, August 14, 2021 when their tour bus ran off the New York State Thruway and rolled over, according to Syracuse.com. The single-vehicle accident occurred around 12:40 pm, when the bus overturned on the westbound side of the NYS...
Four people were injured when a Department of Correction (DOC) bus jumped the curb and smashed into scaffolding in downtown Brooklyn on July 1, 2021. The incident happened at around 5:10pm on Johnson Street, near Jay Street. The driver of the bus, who was also a...
A tragic accident occurred on the evening of June 29th, 2021, when a 71-year-old cyclist was struck and killed by a U.S. Postal Service truck on the Upper West Side. The accident was reported around 5:30 p.m. Police say the cyclist was traveling northbound on Central...
A Brooklyn pedestrian succumbed to his injuries two days after a pole struck by an MTA bus fell on him. It all happened just after 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 8, 2021, as the bus driver was driving on Eastern Parkway near Utica Avenue when he swerved to avoid a...
Two men were killed in a serious box truck crash on the eastbound side of the Long Island Expressway in Nassau County around 5:00 a.m. on Monday, April 5, 2021. This was a single-vehicle crash that involved only the box truck, which swerved off the highway and crashed...
At around 11:00 p.m. on January 14th, 2020, eight people, including the driver, were injured when a city bus crashed and was left dangling from an overpass in the Bronx. The accident victims have been transported to nearby hospitals. No arrests have been made....
At around 1:30 p.m. on December 28th, 2020, two workers were trapped under heavy debris after a 9-foot brick retaining wall collapsed in a residential backyard at 454 42nd Street in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. One worker was left in critical condition and another...
