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Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'fatalcrash'

July 22, 2008

Photograph of the FDNY inspecting the crushed motorcycle by dietrich on Flickr Police say the driver who hit two motorcyclists, killing one, in Lower Manhattan yesterday afternoon will be charged with driving while under the influence; WABC 7 says he was "believed to be on drugs." The driver, in a Volkswagen Jetta, was heading south on South Street when, per the NY Sun, he "passed a parked MTA bus and then struck the motorcyclists......

Continue Reading "Fatal Downtown Crash Driver to be Charged with DWI"

February 28, 2008

Images from WNBC Earlier this morning, around 1:30AM, police were chasing a stolen car in Brooklyn, at 93rd Street and 4th Avenue, but the 1997 Nissan slipped away, heading onto the Belt Parkway. The cops later found it on the Parkway at 65th Street, after it had crashed into a car carrying four people, killing one. The stolen car had "rammed into the back" of the other car. The three other passengers, including a......

Continue Reading "Stolen Car Chase Ends in Fatal Belt Parkway Crash "

January 9, 2008

A speeding U-Haul driver lost control and drove into an Arby's in Fresh Meadows, Queens, killing one customer. Sixty-seven-year-old Caroline Leung and her husband had been eating near a window, and the Daily News reports the crashing van threw her from her seat and she was "pinned against a counter that holds the soda machines." A witness said, "There was blood everywhere on the floor and shattered glass. It was like worse than a......

Continue Reading "Van Crashes into Arby's, Kills Customer"

January 7, 2008

Early yesterday morning, a 1992 Thunderbird crashed into an MTA bus on Hillside Avenue in Queens, killing the car's two occupants. Christopher Boyd, the driver, and passenger Eric Richmond were pronounced dead at the scene. The bus driver and one of the passenger suffered minor injuries. Boyd had received the Thunderbird as a Christmas present, and police believe he was speeding when he lost control of the vehicle as he tried to make a turn.......

Continue Reading "Friends Killed in Car Crash with Bus"

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