At least one Rockland County teen has a good excuse for not cleaning his room: A car crashed into it. The incident occurred in Congers two days ago as 13-year-old Jon Aguila was at home relaxing in his room, when suddenly a Mustang made a dramatic entrance through his bedroom window. "I was next to the wall and everything just fell on me and I was under the car but it didn’t run me over," Aguila, who is fine, recalled to CBS. "I’m lucky to be alive, thank God." more ›

A freak chain-reaction accident on the Cross Bronx Expressway early Sunday morning left one young mother dead and her brother in a coma, as a result of icy conditions on the road from Saturday's snowstorm. more ›

A 30-year-old woman and her 7-year-old son were killed in a horrific car crash yesterday in Manorville. Keri Trinca was driving "on Oceanview Boulevard and as she entered the intersection, she was t-boned by a vehicle heading south on County Road 111," according to WABC 7. A nurse who happened to be driving by the scene told Newsday it was "the most horrible accident I have seen in my life." more ›

Last night around 8:30 p.m., three cars were involved in an ultimately incendiary collision on the Upper West Side. WABC 7 reports that the cars crashed at West 104th Street and Amsterdam Avenue: "One of the cars burst into flames. Another rammed into a bus shelter and ended up on the sidewalk." more ›

Former President Bill Clinton—er, make that Darrell Hammond—is suing over injuries he received during a June car crash in Sag Harbor, claiming he can barely stand, let alone work. more ›

Four high school football players were killed, and four others were injured, in a car wreck on the Garden State Parkway on Saturday morning. Two of the teens were ejected from the vehicle in the crash when their SUV flipped and rolled over several times; the eight boys, all from Mainland Regional High School, were on their way to a team breakfast to celebrate the start of football season. more ›

Yesterday, three members of a Washington Heights family died after a horrifying crash on I-95 in North Carolina. NC authorities say the SUV blew a tire, making driver Rosanny Marte, 22, lose control. more ›

Four people were injured after a multi-car crash on the Upper East Side yesterday night, including one man who was pinned between two of the cars. "The man was getting something out of the back of his parked SUV when the cars hit each other. He was stuck between them and just screaming," witness Beata Dheriault told the Post after the incident on Second Avenue near 82nd Street just before 8 p.m. more ›

A visit to New York ended in tragedy last night for an Australian family driving Astoria, where a two car collision left a little girl dead. Six other people were injured in the accident, which took place around 6:30 p.m. when a GMC minivan flipped over on its side after colliding with a Nissan Sentra at 34th Avenue and 31st Street. 10-year-old Sabrina Mangos of Tennyson, Australia, did not survive the collision, despite bystanders' valiant attempts to rescue her. more ›

An early-morning accident in Newark left a pedestrian dead after being pinned beneath a car, severing both of his legs, and two women have been arrested in conjunction with the crash, which authorities say may have been alcohol-related. more ›

The driver of the truck that spun up onto a Harlem sidewalk into a crowd of pedestrians yesterday has not been charged, and investigators say no criminality is suspected. There are differing accounts of what caused the accident, which killed 89-year-old Leonia White, who was being pushed in her wheelchair near the corner of 145th Street and Seventh Avenue. The collision occurred in the middle of the intersection as a livery cab driver in a Lincoln Town Car attempted to make a left turn onto 145th Street and hit an oncoming pickup truck. more ›

There was a bad accident during lunch hour in Harlem today. The FDNY tells us that paramedics were called to West 145 Street and Powell Boulevard at 12:11 p.m. after a collision sent a pickup truck hurtling onto the sidewalk and into a crowd of pedestrians. At least six people were rushed to the hospital. We're told one of the victims was a 70-year-old woman, who went into traumatic arrest and was pronounced dead on arrival. The other five are hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries. more ›

Yesterday afternoon, a woman driving on Avenue I apparently barreled down the road, jumping the curb, going through a bus stop on McDonald Avenue and finally crashing into a deli. A witness told NBC New York, "She was speeding. She was flying." Six people were injured, and another witness said to the Post, "There was one man who was totally drenched in blood, head to toe." more ›

In the past two weeks, two different cars flew off a newly-renovated ramp off the lower exit of the renamed Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge (ugh), crashing into the same group of storefronts. One pedestrian and one passenger have died from injuries sustained during the crashes, and now locals and politicians are blaming the DOT's changes to traffic patterns. State Senator Mike Gianaris told the Daily News, "Queens motorists, residents and small-business owners should not have to endure errant, projectile vehicles being launched at them on a weekly basis due to the dangerous design of an off-ramp." more ›

The Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge's recently renovated off-ramp has claimed another life: Beatriz Rodriguez, who was a passenger in a car that crashed into a Long Island City beauty salon after careening from the bridge on Wednesday, died yesterday. Last week, a 68-year-old pedestrian standing in front of the salon was killed when a car, also careening from the off-ramp, slammed into him. Rodriguez's sister-in-law told the Post, "They should definitely fix that bridge exit. I think she would be alive today if they would have fixed it." more ›

Yesterday morning a driver reportedly lost control of his car and smashed into the play area at a Utica Avenue McDonald's, denting the jungle gym and leaving the driver with minor injuries. Luckily the driver crashed at around 10:40 a.m., before there were any children in the area. more ›

We've contacted police for more information on this crash from last night, but here's what we know so far. EV Grieve reports that a car crashed into the Sushi Lounge on the southwest corner of St. Mark's Place and Avenue A last night, and police on the scene told Bob Arihood that the driver began suffering from a stroke as he made a U-turn. more ›

You're a doctor who just jumped the curb in your SUV, ramming into several businesses and hitting two pedestrians. Do you, A) offer immediate medical assistance to the bloody people you've just run over? B) Call 911 so EMS can get to the scene as ASAP? Or C) Get your lawyer on the phone STAT? If your name is Pushpa Raj Bhansali and you totaled your SUV in Flatlands yesterday morning, the answer is definitely C, according to "disgusted witnesses" cited in the Post. But a friend of Bhansali insists he did nothing wrong, and the law is on his side. Remember the Hippocratic Oath? So 4th Century BC. more ›

Sgt. Anthony Johnson was killed in a one-car crash on Long Island early Sunday morning, crashing into a tree in Valley Stream around 3 a.m. His Jeep burst into flames upon hitting the tree, and firefighters discovered his body in the car after putting out the blaze. Johnson had worked at the 114th Precinct, and his neighbor said, "This is tragedy...He was a damn good cop, I heard. I heard the precinct is devastated. He just made sergeant about a year ago." more ›

A woman has died and a man is in critical condition after two separate crashes on Hylan Boulevard in Staten Island, both occurring within 24 hours of each other. The first crash took place on Saturday at the intersection of Hylan Boulevard and Steuben Street when a Pontiac made a left on Steuben and crashed into a southbound Mercedes. 82-year-old Mary Toppino was sitting in the rear passenger seat of the Mercedes, and died of her injuries. more ›

Giving fuel to Chuck Schumer's flame, a 17-year-old from Marion, NY crashed his car after drinking two cans of Four Loko. Timothy Taylor, who is not yet a licensed driver, had been "driving around the yard" of a residence in Arcadia around 7 a.m. on November 19th, lost control of the vehicle and crashed through a fence. He told officers he drank two cans of the controversial beverage a few hours before, and he now faces DWI charges. The man who sold him the Four Loko was charged with first-degree unlawfully dealing with a child. Thank goodness these products are being pulled from the shelves—now no teenager will ever drink and drive again. more ›

Police have arrested Pablo Ovalles, 26, of Roslindale, Massachusetts for drunkenly driving his Cadillac northbound in the southbound lane of the Major Deegan Expressway early Saturday morning, crashing into Infiniti driver Patrick Smith of New Jersey and killing him instantly. Ovalles was charged with vehicular manslaughter and driving while intoxicated after being taken to Lincoln Hospital, where he was in stable condition. more ›

Florida native Peter Wolfman was charged with driving while intoxicated and refusing to take a breathalyzer test after pulling a U-turn and pinning 17-year-old Emily Sexton against a wall on City Island yesterday. Sexton and a few friends were standing at a bus stop on City Island Avenue when Wolfman turned around and headed for them. 15-year-old Blake Cottam, who was standing with the group, told ABC 7, "He went to go make a U-turn, didn't complete the turn and went straight at us, he went faster and faster. I thought he was going to joking with us, three kids, speed up and then slow down. I moved back just in case and then he didn't stop and I know it would be bad from there." more ›

The off-duty NYPD officer who was killed earlier this week in a messy car accident in Long Island has been identified as Officer Fred Barraza. Barraza, who was assigned to the 110th Precinct in Elmhurst, was driving home from work around 2 a.m. Thursday morning with his cousin in the passenger seat when he swerved in front of another car, lost control, and careened into a tree. Investigators said Barraza was speeding at the time, but it hasn't been determined yet if he was drunk. The passenger, Jose Valdevenito, was ejected from his seat during the crash, and is being treated for serious head trauma at Nassau University Medical Center. more ›

An off-duty NYPD officer was killed in a messy car crash in Long Island early this morning. The officer, whose name has not been released to the public yet, and another man were apparently speeding in a black 1994 Honda Accord on Carmen Ave. in Westbury around 2 a.m. this morning. They lost control of the car while passing another car, jumped a curb, and wrapped around a tree. The officer was trapped in the mangled wreckage of the vehicle, and was pronounced dead at the hospital. more ›

You want to know why New York is the greatest city in the world? It's because a tourist can get hit by a cop car and still want to come back. Johannes Glaumann, a tourist on his second visit to the city from Stockholm, was struck by an NYPD patrol car while crossing West Street at Clarkson Street yesterday morning. But from his bed at Bellevue Hospital, he told the Daily News, "I don't blame New York. I want to come back." Why not, when the city is full of gritty, real experiences like that? Hell, the NYPD should start charging for this kind of "only in New York" thrill! more ›

After a flaccid premiere, the second night ratings for the new Eliot Spitzer-Kathleen Parker CNN talk show, Parker Spitzer, did better. According to Media Decoder, the show "had nowhere to go but up — and up it went. The program, which also had a rough first outing at the hands of critics, showed noticeable ratings improvement on its second night: it averaged 513,000 viewers, up from 454,000 the night before, which is a respectable improvement of 13 percent." Maybe the viewers were there for the sulfurous chemistry or the car crash. more ›