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Automobile Accidents | InjuryBoard New York City

Posted by Shannon Weidemann
June 28, 2008 3:57 PM

A man was killed in a car accident in Jefferson County last night. The accident happened in Rodman on County Route 69. Deputies say three people were traveling west on County Route 69 in a 1999...

Posted by Shannon Weidemann
June 22, 2008 3:29 PM

There was a strange rash of cars going onto sidewalks in New York City this weekend. A total of four cars hurt 22 people after leaving the roadway. Three of the pedestrian accidents happened in...

Posted by Shannon Weidemann
May 25, 2008 8:39 PM

A 28-year-old man from Irving was killed in a car accident on Saturday morning. The accident occured on Route 20. Only one car was involved in the accident. The vicim: was driving east on...

Posted by Chrissie Cole
April 17, 2008 7:25 AM

A car jumped the curb, struck a coffee cart and plowed up the busy steps of Manhattan’s State Supreme Court Building, on Friday, injuring six and trapping one man beneath the vehicle. Firefighters...

Posted by Chrissie Cole
February 19, 2008 9:03 PM

A tragic car accident claimed the lives of a brother and sister when the vehicle they were traveling in crashed with a tractor-trailer truck, in rural Western New York. The mother and driver, 48, of Bergen, was driving on a straight stretch of highway on Route 262, at about 10:15 a.m., when she turned into the path of a tractor-trailer, according to the Genesee County Sheriff's Department. The...

Posted by Chrissie Cole
January 19, 2008 12:12 AM

A Brooklyn man was arrested, on Sunday, for an October 6 car accident that killed one man and seriously injured another near the Belt Parkway.The man, 19, was arrested and charged with manslaughter, according to police. The accident occurred at 4 a.m., on October 6, when he was driving east on the parkway and his car swerved off the roadside onto a grassy area and struck two pedestrians.He told...

Posted by Jenny Albano
January 12, 2008 6:31 PM

A woman who was seriously injured when her car crashed off a pier earlier this week died on Friday, January 11. Margrit Mueller, 68, had been in critical condition and was unconscious since her accident on Monday, January 7. Mueller and her passenger, Ellen Halvorsen, went off a Bay Shore pier and the car landed upside down in freezing cold water. Two Good Samaritans who heard the crash...

Posted by Shannon Weidemann
November 26, 2007 12:02 AM

A 32-year-old woman from New York City was killed in a car accident on a Pennslyvania highway. The accident happened on Wednesday, one of the busiest travel days of the year. The driver of the car, also from New York City was injured in the crash. His condition is unknown. A westbound car collided with an eastbound tractor-trailer about 9:30 a.m. after the car crossed a grassy median near...

Posted by Jenny Albano
November 04, 2007 10:46 PM

On Saturday, November 3 an oil tanker crashed a lighthouse off the coast of Staten Island. The tanker, Axel Spirit, slammed into the light house tower at around 2 a.m. The tanker damaged the tower's legs, so the tower's light is no longer rotating and is not considered reliable. The light is still working though.No injuries were found aboard the tanker and no pollution of oil was reported. ...

Posted by Shannon Weidemann
September 19, 2007 7:33 PM

A semi-truck fell from an elevated highway in New York City and came to rest on a car. The car accident happened on the Staten Island Expressway. A 61-year-old woman and her 1-year-old granddaughter were in the car. Neither was injured in the accident. The woman driving the car described the incident to reporters. "I see the truck coming down on me," she said. "If I kept going, he would...

Posted by Shannon Weidemann
August 20, 2007 3:11 PM

A bicyclist was killed after going for a ride in Dutchess County, New York. The 49-year-old victim was struck by a car. The driver is a 54-year-old-man from Rhinebeck. The bicycle accident happened on Saturday afternoon in Clinton Corners. Deputies say the car was making a left turn when it struck the bicyclist, who was pronounced dead at the scene. The accident remains under...

Posted by Jenny Albano
August 06, 2007 12:58 PM

A women who was driving home after drinking a bottle of vodka hit a 3 year-old girl, her grandmother, and her great-grandmother. The women did not bother to stop until someone informed her there was a stroller being dragged under her car.The toddler and the two women were crossing a street in Queens when they were hit Saturday, August 4. Mia Tetelman, the toddler, has broken ribs and bruising...

Posted by Shannon Weidemann
July 24, 2007 2:55 PM

An 18-year-old teenage girl from Camden, New York was killed in a car accident in Nelson over the weekend. She was the only person in her car. The SUV that hit her had three people in it. The victim was visiting friends in the area. The accident occurred at the intersection of Pleasant Valley Road and Route 20 in Nelson after the victim failed to stop at a stop sign. Her vehicle was hit...

Posted by Shannon Weidemann
May 31, 2007 3:13 PM

A truck accident on the I-90 closed the freeway on Wednesday morning. A tractor trailer rolled over at the Northway exit. The truck's load spilled all over the freeway. The accident happened just after 7 a.m. as a tractor trailer loaded with 54,000 pounds of construction material was traveling west on I-90. That's when another car crossed into its lane. "The most serious contributing factor...

Posted by Christina Cole
May 07, 2007 12:44 AM

A one-vehicle rollover car accident, on Sunday morning, on the Adirondack Northway killed a Pennsylvania woman, New York State Police said.The Dodge Caliber was traveling over the speed limit, at a high rate, when the vehicle went off the side of the road and flipped over several times, police said. One of the passengers, 26, of Philadelphia, was ejected from the vehicle and died at the...

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