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As if 2020 hasn't already been tough enough for New York City, it was recently reported that the city is on track to have the highest number of traffic fatalities since 2014, the year that Mayor Bill de Blasio took office. Street safety non-profit Transportation...
A frightening crash took place early on the morning of Wednesday, October 21, 2020: Three people, including a 6-year-old child, were seriously injured when an elementary school bus collided with a tree-trimming truck in Orange County, New York. Emergency services...
A Saturday morning in New York City turned tragic when a serious bus crash harmed at least 14 people, one critically. The incident occurred near Lincoln Tunnel at around 9:30 a.m. on August 29, 2020. An N.J. Transit 156 line bus was en route to Port Authority from...
A 19-year-old bicyclist was tragically killed when she was struck by an MTA bus on the morning of Tuesday, June 16, 2020. The woman was biking downtown at Fifth Avenue and 59th Street around 9:00 a.m. when she was hit by the right rear corner of a BxM10 bus. She died...
On Wednesday evening, June 10th, 2020, Bronx mother, Tanika Smith, ran out of her home to a horrifying scene as her 10-year-old daughter laid on the street after being struck by an NYPD car. Ten-year-old Chante, thankfully, survived the accident. According to Smith,...
On May 19th, 2020, a frightening accident occurred at East New York Avenue near Ralph Avenue in Brooklyn when an MTA B12 bus driver lost control of his vehicle, leaving a path of destruction in his wake. Multiple people were reported injured as a result of the...
Early Monday morning, May 18, 2020, Florentino Cruseno Morales was tragically killed when he was pinned between two delivery trucks in the Kew Gardens neighborhood of Queens. The accident happened at around 6:30 a.m. in front of the Bais Yaakov Academy, a school at...
A 53-year-old bicyclist was injured when he was hit by a box truck in Corona, Queens on Wednesday, May 13, 2020. Police and emergency services responded to the accident scene at the corner of 43rd Avenue and Junction Boulevard in Queens around 7:30 a.m. on Wednesday....
In the early hours of May 13, 2020, an MTA employee, identified as 24-year-old Stephen Singh by ABC 7 News, was taken into police custody after crashing an MTA repair truck into a parked Pepsi delivery truck near Times Square. Two accident victims were hospitalized...
A 59-year-old man in Greenwich Village was left in critical condition after he was struck by a United States Postal Service truck on the morning of Sunday, May 10, 2020. The accident occurred at approximately 11:50 a.m., on 14th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues...
