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Around 7 a.m., a crash involving three vehicles occurred on the West Side Highway near 125th Street. According to WABC 7, "A northbound car apparently flipped over the guardrail and into the southbound lanes, landing on another vehicle." Two people were taken to the hospital.

A Staten Island teenager is in critical condition after she was run over in a chain reaction car crash in front of Tottenville High School yesterday. At around 11:30 am, a Nissan Maxima stopped to allow 17-year-old senior Janine Brawer to cross Luten Avenue. But as she crossed the street, a Saturn rear-ended the Nissan and pushed the car into the teen, pinning her beneath it. Rescue workers extracted Brawer — who suffered cardiac arrest during the collision — and transported her to Staten Island University Hospital, where she underwent surgery and remains in "grave condition," according to police.

A few more details about yesterday's fatal car crash on the Brooklyn Bridge, which closed inbound lanes for hours. The Daily News has a photograph of the crumpled car and reports, "Investigators believe Andre Donald was traveling from his home in East New York, Brooklyn, just after 4 a.m. when he lost control of his 2008 gray Honda Accord and crashed. The [stationary, yellow] DOT truck, which was unoccupied, sported a flashing electronic arrow meant to alert motorists to its presence... Investigators are not certain what caused Donald to hit the well-marked yellow truck but were checking if he had been drinking in the hours before the accident, police sources said." And WPIX's Linda Church was at the bridge during the accident and said, "This car was literally trashed, the whole first half of it. It was a horrible accident... He somehow hit the back of this big bridge truck with all the yellow arrows. Hard to say how he missed it but clearly he missed it and clearly he was going very fast."

A driver was killed in an accident on the Brooklyn Bridge earlier this morning. According to WCBS 2, "New York City police say the man was driving toward Manhattan when his car collided with a city Department of Transportation dump truck... Police say the truck was equipped with an arrow on top of its cab alerting drivers to work crews on the bridge. It wasn't immediately clear whether the truck was moving or parked during the crash." The driver was pronounced dead at the hospital. Currently, the inbound lanes and the ramp from the eastbound Brooklyn Queens Expressway to the bridge are closed.

A police cruiser responding to a call was T-boned by another car in Bedford-Stuyvesant earlier this morning. The incident occurred at Greene and Lewis Avenues around 3:30 a.m. WCBS 2, whose footage shows the cruiser flipped over, reports, "The two officers were taken to Bellevue Hospital. Two people in the other car were taken to Brookdale Hospital, where they are believed to be in stable condition. According to police, none of the injuries are life threatening. Police said they do not expect to press charges, and the incident was an accident."

An unidentified NYPD narcotics officer had one of his legs amputated below the calf last night after getting pinned by a car that jumped the curb during an accident in Brooklyn. The plainclothes officer, a five and a half year NYPD veteran, was loading drug bust prisoners into a van at about 5 p.m. at the intersection of Avenue U and East 34th Street in Marine Park, when two vehicles traveling opposite directions slammed into each other and jumped the curb. The cop was rushed to Kings County Hospital and is listed in serious but stable condition. No one else was hurt in the incident, and according to 1010 WINS, neither of the drivers have been charged and police have ruled this an accident.

Early this morning, a collision between two vehicles in the Pelham Gardens section of the Bronx has left two dead and one critically injured. According to WCBS 2, "Police say a [livery] car driven by a 41-year-old man was struck by a sport utility vehicle at the intersection of Laconia and Waring Avenues in Pelham Gardens just after midnight." WABC 7 says the SUV "t-boned" the car and that witnesses tried to put out the fires from both cars. The livery car's 41-year-old driver died while his passenger, a woman in her 20s, was ejected from the car. Because her body landed beyond a fence, it wasn't detected for 30 minutes. The SUV's driver, 27, was taken to the hospital in critical condition.

Around 12:40 a.m. this morning, a 21-year-old driver in a Toyota Camry was "killed when his out of control car flipped through the air and careened into two homes" in Flushing, Queens, according to WABC 7. It's suspected that the driver was traveling at a high rate of speed as he drove along the eastbound Horace Harding Expressway. WABC 7 adds, "The Camry flipped into the air, hurtled over two parked cars, and took down a street sign as it crashed into the front of a house on 61st Road." No one else was injured; one of the homes' residents told PIX News, "I heard a bang and the whole house shook," adding the car was completely in flames. Residents also say that this part of the Horace Harding Expressway, which is a service road for the LIE, has had many accidents; in fact, PIX News reports that one of the homes damaged today was also hit by a car 10 years ago.

Doctors are trying to reattach a Brooklyn man's leg after a terrible crash in Mill Basin last night. 1010 WINS reports that a livery "cab traveling on E57th Street south of Avenue L around 7:45 p.m. swerved to avoid a car pulling out from a driveway on the right side of the road and slammed into the man who was across the street putting his child in a car-seat." A neighbor told the Post, "I saw the cab swerve and the next thing you know his leg was down the street. He was on the ground totally quiet." Neighbors apparently helped by putting the leg on ice and the man was taken to Bellevue Hospital. The baby was slightly injured.

Yesterday, a family's father, mother, and two children died in a car crash in North Carolina. Wayne Pride-Hicks, wife Natalie, and their five kids were traveling to Alabama for a family reunion when their minivan "drifted" into oncoming traffic on I-77. Police say Wayne Pride-Hicks, who was driving, had fallen asleep; the Post reports, "8-year-old son, Elijah, futilely tried to wake him, but the family minivan rammed head-on into a pick-up truck and a car," according to Pastor Lester Williams of Community Church of Christ in Jamaica, where both Wayne and Natalie Pride-Hicks were deacons. Pride-Hicks, his wife, son Wayne Jr. and daughter Natalia were killed; the pick-up truck's driver and passenger were in critical condition while the car's driver was treated and released. Williams and his wife plan to petition for guardianship of the surviving children, Elijah and Josiah and John, both 5.

Yesterday afternoon, a car crash near JFK Airport claimed the lives of two people and injured four others. According to NY1, "Police say a Toyota Corolla traveling southbound on Brookville Boulevard in Rosedale crossed over into the northbound lane and collided into a minivan. The driver of the Corolla, Stephen Bachoon, 17, and one of his passengers, Chris Basdeo, 16, were pronounced dead at the scene." The Corolla's four other passengers—all teens—were taken to the hospital as was the minivan's 70-year-old driver. WTEN points out that you must be 18 year old to drive in New York City.

How many people have to be hospitalized before Nic Cage's reign of terror ends? Earlier this morning there was another car crash connected to Times Square set of Sorcerer's Apprentice, where a stunt car chase went dangerously wrong just days ago. This time, however, it was the production team that found themselves in harm's way; filming had just wrapped for the night when a BMW SUV traveling south on 7th Avenue between 50th and 51st Streets crashed into a parked car after swerving to avoid striking a yellow taxi. According to ABC 7, the unoccupied vehicle was then sent hurtling onto the sidewalk, striking as many as eight crew members gathered under the marquee of Mama Mia. Production team member Hameen Rasul tells CBS 2, "The streets shouldn't have been open, we had the streets until 5:30." Eight people were taken to the hospital with "minor injuries" and no charges were filed—though we all know who's really at fault here, and if there's any justice one day he'll have to answer for his crimes. Particularly Bangkok Dangerous. UPDATE: Will it never end? A commenter hips us to a devastating fire at Park Slope's Grace Cleaners while Sorcerer's Apprentice was filming in the neighborhood; although investigators have yet to link Cage to the blaze, one imagines the production's parked trucks may have complicated the firefighters' response.

Nic Cage's spectacular path of destruction expanded beyond his career last night, nearly costing two innocent bystanders their lives. Around 1 a.m., a car chase through Times Square for Cage's movie The Sorcerer'’s Apprentice became uncomfortably realistic when the driver of one of the vehicles, a black Ferrari, lost control and skidded off Seventh Avenue. One tourist from England told the Post he saw the Ferrari "taking out a lamppost and a news stand. One lady was knocked to the ground and a lamppost landed directly on top of a chap." It quickly crashed to a halt at the Sbarro, as this video shows:

Reverend Timothy Wright, pastor of Grace Tabernacle Church of God in Christ in Brooklyn and Grammy-nominated gospel singer, passed away yesterday at age 61. Wright had been in the hospital since last July, when he was seriously injured in a car accident.

We don't know whether someone was in a rush to buy some last minute flowers or was just another of nearly 40% of New York City drivers who exceed the speed limit, but someone on Avenue A today did a bang-up job parking their car just outside the Exit 9 Gift Shop between East 4th and 5th Streets in the East Village.

Police are saying that a jammed-up floor mat by the driver side pedals set the stage for a freak accident that left 14 injured when Theodore Saretsky drove through the window of a Hanukkah party in Woodmere. After originally claiming that he thought there was a problem with his SUV's accelerator that led to the crash, now it appears that the mat got wedged between the gas and brake pedals. Nassau County Police spokesman Kevin Smith said, "The mat had slid up and started to roll up, almost like a roll of wrapping paper. Part of that roll was on top of the accelerator, and the other part was behind the brake, and it almost acted like a fulcrum. The harder he stepped down on the brake, the faster the car went. So he's confused by this, and as he looks down, his car veered left into a parked car, and then vaulted into the building." Meanwhile, today's Post credits one man, Dovi Faivish, as being the "modern-day Hanukkah miracle" hero that spotted the SUV about to crash through the party hall window and immediately moved children out of the way, potentially saving several lives. All 14 hospitalized are expected to survive.

A 76-year-old man driving an SUV crashed the vehicle into a building where a children's Hanukkah party was being held. The accident took place on Long Island, in Woodmere, around 2:45 p.m. yesterday. Fourteen people were injured, a dozen of them children. Two children are in critical but stable condition at Nassau University Hospital.

According to Newsday, a 21-year-old college student "was killed when a drunken driver's SUV slammed head-on into his car, Nassau police said." Jason Shein, on Thanksgiving break from the University of Miami and a volunteer EMT, had been driving home in Farmingdale with three friends when the crash occurred shortly after midnight on Sunday. Of Shein's passengers, one was seriously injured and two others were treated and released from the hospital. The SUV's driver, Persi Esquivel, who was also treated for injuries, had apparently "crossed the double yellow line to pass another vehicle" and ending up hitting Shein's car. Esquivel was charged with manslaughter and 11 other charges; plus he had been "on probation from a previous drunken driving conviction."

While friends and family mourn the deaths of a livery cab driver and passenger who were killed by a suspected drunk driver, they are also angry that the suspect was allowed to be driving at all. Daryush Omar, who is charged with drunken driving, criminally-negligent homicide, and driving with a suspended license, faces murder charges in a 2006 incident--and is apparently in the country illegally.

The driver suspected of DWI when he crashed his Range Rover into a livery cab, killing the driver and passenger, actually faces murder charges from a 2006 incident.

A 29-year-old school teacher is dead and her boyfriend remains in intensive care after they were struck from behind by an SUV while jogging in Huntington Thursday night. The driver of the Dodge Durango that killed Amanda Malloy and seriously injured Vincent Saunders was Shea Rosen, a 19-year-old was charged with a DWI after cops said he smelled of marijuana, had pills in his sock and refused to take a breathalyzer exam at the scene of the crash.

Jacob Chubalashvili was arraigned yesterday on charges including second-degree manslaughter for crashing into an Acura, killing its two passengers immediately in Forest Hills on Tuesday morning. The Queens DA's office released some of the 17-year-old unlicensed driver's statements:

[On the morning of August 5] Chubalashvili said, “I just took the car, I didn’t have permission to take it. I smoked some marijuana before I took the car... I remember taking the car, it’s a Mercedes and jetting down the road and the next thing I remember is waking up in the hospital.”

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The deaths of a couple immediately killed in their car when an unlicensed 17-year-old driver ran through a red light on a Grand Central Parkway service road has upset and outraged their neighbors. Jacob Chubalashvili, who stole the keys to a Mercedes from a family friend who was supposed to be watching him, faces many charges, including second degree manslaughter, speeding, and driving without a license after causing the crash that killed Ki and Hyek Young Kim Tuesday morning. The Kims' neighbor told NY1, "It's terrible, it's just terrible. It could happen to me it could happen to my family. It's just sad that things like this happen and that 17-year-old kid is going to get minimal time." Chubalashvili also told the police he had been smoking marijuana before driving.

It turns out that the driver of a Mercedes Benz had barreled through a red light on the Grand Central Parkway yesterday when it hit the Acura, killing the Acura's two passengers. And further, the driver did not have a license and had been smoking marijuana.

This morning, two people were killed when a car crashed into their Acura. WCBS 2 reported the car "was split in half" with "mangled debris scattered all over the road, and the passengers were killed immediately. The driver of the other car, a Mercedes, was taken to the hospital. Now, WNBC says the driver has been arrested and charges are pending.

Last Friday, Rev. Timothy Wright, the pastor of the Grace Tabernacle Christian Center in Crown Heights, was critically injured in a car crash in Pennsylvania that fatally injured his wife and 14-year-old grandson.

If one ever needed an additional reason to buckle up, there's the news of two men who were killed while traveling in a car piloted by a drunken driver. 28-year-old Stephen Bush was speeding down Rockaway Blvd. early Saturday morning when he lost control of his Cadillac sedan and drove through the front of a carpet store in Rosedale. Bush was uninjured, but two of his passengers--Garfield Nelson and Wayne Burnette--were both killed. A third person was mildly injured.

Five different car crashes in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens have left five people dead yesterday.

The Gothamist Newsmapindicated a "Police Car MVA W/ entrapment" occurred at Miller & Bellmont Avenues in Brooklyn at 2:49AM this morning. It turns out that it wasn't just a police cruiser - it was a cruiser, a driver trying to flee a traffic stop and fifteen parked cars.

Prospect Heights mom and Park Slope Food Coop member Yvonne Brechbuhler got a little something extra in a head of organic lettuce she recently brought home: a little green frog “no bigger than the tip of her pinky finger," according to the Daily News. Brechbuhler discovered the frog (pictured) only when she took out the lettuce to make a salad – after it had been in her refrigerator for three days. She insists that her fridge has no frog infestation and speculates the frog hitchhiked in the lettuce from South Florida, presumably seeking fame and fortune in the big city.