Rafael Casiano, the off-duty housing officer who crashed his car last week, seriously injuring his partner, and then blew a (legal) .032 on a breathalyzer test nine hours later, has been forced by a judge to hand over his driver's license. more ›

A leading company that provides red light cameras to catch drivers breaking traffic laws has been putting some of its vast cache of footage on YouTube. The P.S.A.s are intended to show the possible consequences of flouting red lights, and the company, American Traffic Solutions, recently compiled a montage of car crashes and near-misses from New Jersey. Watch and marvel at how stupid you can be and still qualify for a driver's license: more ›

Yesterday, it was reported that an off-duty police officer hit a divider on the Bronx River Parkway, overturning the vehicle that held him and his partner. Though police officers at the scene determined that Office Rafael Casiano had been drinking—he admitted he "had a few drinks"—he was not given a Breathalyzer until nine hours later. Now the NYPD says Internal Affairs is investigating that delay. more ›

An off duty Bronx cop was arrested and charged with a DWI after a car crash yesterday that left his partner in a medically-induced coma. Officer Rafael Casiano was driving his personal vehicle on the Bronx River Parkway near the Cross Bronx Expressway around 4:30 p.m when his car skidded, hit a divider, and flipped. more ›

The National Transportation Safety Board said that NYC investment banker Jeffrey Buckalew told air traffic control that his small plane was icing up after taking off from Teterboro Airport on Tuesday. The Socata TBM-700 crashed onto 287 in Harding, NJ, killing Buckalew, his wife Corinne, their two children Jackson and Meriwther, as well as Buckalew's colleague Rakesh Chawla. more ›

A spokesman for the city's Office of Emergency Management was suspended without pay after an incident in Soho on Wednesday night. The Post reports that Seth Andrews crashed his city-owned car and then threatened a female police officer who was arresting him, "I’m going to choke you, just watch out. You’re done. I can’t wait to get you on Staten Island. You just watch your gun." more ›

In April, a Volkswagen Jetta careened off the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge and crashed into Queens storefronts. Passenger Beatriz Rodriguez died from her injuries while driver Alexander Palacio's arm was amputated. Now Palacio, who was charged with unlicensed driving, is suing the city. more ›

Two years ago, a sightseeing helicopter and a small private plane collided over the Hudson River, killing a total of 9 people and raising questions about air traffic safety. Now, the Post reports, "The federal government has struck a secret deal with operators of tourist helicopters -- allowing them to fly in airspace over the Hudson River supposed to be reserved only for small, private aircraft." To make matters worse, "Even the private pilots who use the corridor are not warned by FAA flight briefers to be on alert for the choppers they don’t expect to encounter." 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 ›

Oh, United Nations diplomats with their fancy cars! We know they are awesome at racking up millions in unpaid parking tickets, but did you know that sometimes their drivers leave $100,000 Mercedes Benz S550 sedans double-parked and idling on streets as they duck into bodegas for snacks? more ›

Police believe that the SUV driver who blew a stop sign on a Staten Island street, resulting in a crash that left an 18-year-old man dead and the amputation of a 17-year-old girl's arm, may have been drinking. Brian Pittsley, 25, had fled the grisly crash scene yelling "I don't need this sh--!" only to be arrested by cops in Brooklyn yesterday, exclaiming, "I let you guys catch me." more ›

Ten years ago today, 22-year-old Brooklyn-born singer Aaliyah died in a plane crash in the Bahamas. She was on a twin-engine plane that crashed just after taking off from the Bahamas—all nine people on board died. Initial reports said the plane suffered engine failure upon liftoff, though later on it was discovered that the pilot was doing cocaine and had alcohol in his system. more ›

Last week Christopher Nolan released the first photo of Anne Hathaway as Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises (and Hathaway knows that you think she looks "meh", Internet). She was perched upon the Batpod, but other photos of her in action on set were actually of a stuntwoman. And now TMZ has video footage of that stuntwoman crashing... into a very pricey IMAX camera! more ›

The 44-year-old man who was driving the SUV that flipped over and killed 13-year-old Kira Goddard in Brooklyn Saturday night spent a total of four years in state prison for robbery and drug dealing. Sean Lewis, 44, was stabbed in the torso prior to striking three parked vehicles and backing his Range Rover into another, sending the car tumbling over the curb and fatally pinning her against her building. Lewis, who had at least 10 children (reports vary from 10 to 11), died in the hospital, where authorities discovered he'd been stabbed. "He was a real family man," his 24-year-old son Sean Norman tells the Post, "I'm mourning my father and also that innocent little girl. Neither of them deserved to die." more ›

A Mitsubishi Montero SUV that tried to pass a Dodge Charger in Queens ended up sending the Charger into a horrible crash, killing a 19-year-old passenger on Friday night. According to the Daily News, "Police sources said [SUV driver Luis] Forero failed to pass the Charger and smashed into it, sending it careening into a fence and launching it onto its roof, where it slid upside down for about 150 feet." There's also a terrible picture of the mangled Charger. more ›

A passenger of the SUV that was reportedly going 112 mph before careening off the FDR at E. 23rd street in Kips Bay early Saturday morning has had a leg amputated, and the driver, 38-year-old Eric Bryant lost an ear. Miraculously, all 8 people involved survived, including the 23-year-old cabbie, Atif Raza, whose car broke the Land Rover's fall. "It felt like an earthquake," Raza tells the Post, "I'm happy to be alive. I'm getting a second chance…I'm really going to be going to the mosque now." more ›

Around 3 a.m. this morning a Land Rover SUV carrying seven people flew off the FDR around 23rd street in Kips Bay, landed on the passenger side of a taxi 15 feet below, and rolled off onto its wheels. The cab was only carrying its driver. Altogether, eight people were injured, including two critically. more ›

One survivor of the SUV crash on the Garden State Parkway spoke out yesterday about the tragedy that claimed three teenagers' lives. Victor Whiteaker, who was in the SUV driven by his fiancee's father, said, "All of a sudden, I saw a black car fly past us and cut us off. It must have been going 150 mph! I heard her dad [Dimitrios Iliopoulos] scream, ‘Vinny! Vinny!’ as the car started weaving back and forth. I put my hands over my head and felt the car flip." more ›

A 32-year-old woman is dead after a car driven by her boyfriend drove into a street median and hit a light pole and another car on Fourth Avenue in Sunset Park last night. And not only was the boyfriend charged with DWI, apparently the car belonged to the boyfriend's wife. The Daily News reports, "[Nyron] Isaac, an unemployed maintenance worker, was supposed to be home watching his 10-year-old son, according to his wife, Tennile Isaac, 29, who has been seeking a divorce. She had warned him not to drive the Cadillac, which she was transferring ownership of to him, because it was uninsured, she said." more ›

Just a day after an 89-year-old pedestrian was fatally struck by a pick-up truck that jumped a curb (after a livery cab hit it), a motorcyclist was struck by a van at 146th Street and Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard in Harlem around 1:20 p.m. According to DNAinfo, "Witnesses said the motorcyclist was headed south on Adam Clayton Powell when it collided with a van crossing on W. 146th Street, witnesses said. It was unclear which vehicle might have ran the light." more ›

One elderly woman was killed and five others were injured when a cab crashed into a building in the Bronx this afternoon. A 61-year-old, who has yet to be identified, was shopping in the Cee and Cee Department Store when the careening cab crashed through a glass pane and hit her. The car was about halfway across the intersection when everyone started screaming, ‘Oh my God! Oh my god!' I turned and saw the car slam into the store,” said witness Juan Gonzalez Sanchez. more ›

Yesterday at 5:20 p.m., a Department of Sanitation worker was arrested for DWI after crashing his loaded garbage truck, head-on, into a car at Bushwick Avenue and Grand Street in East Williamsburg. Images of the wrecked Hyundai are dramatic—the car's driver had to be cut out of the vehicle—and the driver and passenger were hospitalized. According to WABC 7, "Witnesses say the on-duty worker was given a breathalyzer test at the scene and arrested shortly afterwards." more ›

Early yesterday morning, a car careened off an Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge ramp and into a Long Island City building, resulting in injuries for the driver and passenger. This was the second accident off the ramp in nine days—and the car hit the same store, a beauty salon. Business owners declared the recently-renovated ramp a "death trap" as cops arrested the driver for aggravated unlicensed driving. more ›

A week after a car careened off the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge and barreled into a strip of Long Island City stores, it's happened again this morning. The car careened off the bridge into the same group of stores. The crash occurred around 4:30 a.m. and MyFoxNY reports, "The driver of a 2006 Volkswagen Jetta driving Queens-bound on the lower level of the Queensboro Bridge lost control and crashed into a building at Crescent Street and Queens Plaza." more ›