A 47-year-old man was critically injured when he was struck by a driver in Brooklyn last night. The pedestrian was crossing 6th Avenue at 51st Street when a car slammed into him and kept going. And police may have found the car. more ›

The Brooklyn mom who fatally hit a motorcyclist last year has been sentenced to just 60 days in jail. Naisha Sutton, 26, hit 27-year-old hedge fund executive Ronan Katz after making an illegal left turn off of Canal Street in September 2010. Although she made the illegal turn, had no driver's license, and admitted to fleeing the scene, she was spared a harsher sentence: “They realized that she actually got out of the car and asked that people call 911” before panicking and speeding away," defense lawyer Howard Simmons said. more ›

The driver who killed 38-year-old Donna Fountain as she headed to work on Christmas morning in Crown Heights remains at large, but her family says investigators have located the vehicle. According to witnesses, the driver may have been engaged in illegal street racing when he or she ran down Fountain on Eastern Parkway, leaving her to die in the street. Police are poring over traffic camera footage from the area, while the local community has come together to raise $25,000 for Fountain's orphaned son Elijah, age 8. more ›

And here is the utterly heartbreaking story of Donna Fountain, a 38-year-old home health care aide who was killed by a hit-and-run driver in Crown Heights on Christmas morning. Fountain was blocks from her home when she was run down at 7:30 a.m. Sunday, at the intersection of Eastern Parkway and Troy Avenue. Back at her apartment, her 8-year-old son waited with a babysitter for his mother to return from her morning shift and open presents with him. more ›

A 38-year-old woman was killed while crossing an intersection in Crown Heights yesterday morning, and police say she was the victim of a hit-and-run driver. more ›

A good Samaritan helped police track down a coffee truck driver who allegedly hit a 90-year-old man in Williamsburg yesterday. Police said the 90-year-old man was hit by a truck at Metropolitan Avenue near Orient Avenue around 11:30 a.m. Thursday morning. “Coffee cups fell out of the back of the truck, and he was going very fast,” witness Aslam Khan told the Post. Although the driver fled the scene, a good Samaritan followed him, cut him off a few blocks away at Meeker Avenue and Lorimer Street, and called 911. more ›

A pedestrian walking by West 57th Street and 10th Avenue was killed by a motorcyclist that struck him. According to WCBS 2, "Police say a 22-year-old woman driving the motorcycle hit the man while he crossed the street at 57th and 10th Avenue just before 3 a.m." more ›

A Stony Brook University senior was hit and killed yesterday by a pickup truck and its driver is accused of leaving the scene. 23-year-old Seong Hoon Baek was heading back home from Best Buy when a Ford-350 struck him on Route 347 near Pond Path at around 9:45 p.m. According to police, 30-year-old Michael Tarduno, Jr. was driving the vehicle, and fled the scene. Witnesses gave authorities his license plate number, and he was arrested later that evening. According to the Post, police allegedly found drugs in Tarduno's truck, and he's charged with leaving the scene of an accident and possession. more ›

A hit-and-run driver struck two boys riding their bikes last night in Gravesend. Details are still scant, but the NYPD press office confirms that police and EMTs were called to the intersection of Avenue S and East 4th Street last night around 10:30 p.m. There they found two injured 12-year-old boys who had been hit by a car while riding their bikes. more ›

Police are looking for the driver who fatally struck a man on the Grand Central Parkway in Queens earlier this morning. A 65-year-old man who had gotten into an accident had exited his car to inspect the damage, and WABC 7 reports, "a passing vehicle struck him and kept going." more ›

It's Friday afternoon, so why not start your weekend with a feel-good story? RaeVaughn Gardner-Williams, an 18-year-old honor student, is shocking doctors and family members with his recovery after being nearly killed by a hit-and-run earlier this month. more ›

A 50-year-old Jersey man has been issued a summons for leaving the scene of an accident—specifically an accident in which he allegedly hit the car of Howard Stern's trusty 59-year-old co-host Robin Quivers. The incident took place on Sunday afternoon when Quivers was driving north on Route 9. more ›

In February of last year a 22-year-old Bloomberg aide, Erinn Phelan, was struck by a 1993 Acura Legend after pushing a friend out of the car's path. Phelan remains in a vegetative state but today, at least, her family saw some justice served against the woman who was driving the Acura, 30-year-old Frances Jasmin. "You must be punished in the most-severe way, but it hardly seems adequate," Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Joseph McKay said before imposing the maximum sentence of 1 1/3 to four years behind bars for the class D felony of leaving the scene of an accident. The judge also recommended that her driver's license be revoked forever. more ›

A motorcyclist traveling northbound on the West Side Highway was knocked off his vehicle by an SUV and then struck and killed by another driver who was arrested at the scene for DWI. The condition of a second passenger on the motorcycle is unknown. more ›

Can you blame her? Rosa Estevez, the Bronx woman whose husband used her car to run over his girlfriend before getting into a wreck himself this weekend, says she is leaving her hubby of five years. "I have no idea what was going on with them. All I know is they got into a fight, they got into an argument, and he hit her," Estevez told reporters. "We broke up. We don’t have a relationship—now only a daughter." more ›

A 23-year-old woman was struck by a SUV on West 46th Street at 3 a.m. yesterday—and police believe that the man who hit her was her boyfriend, because they found eventually the suspected hit-and-run driver, Ricaury Pena, in a wrecked Honda Pilot on the Harlem River Drive at 8 a.m. And the Post thickens the pilot: Pena, 28, was driving his wife's car. more ›

A woman who struck and killed a former nurse before attempting to flee the scene on the Upper West Side last November was sentenced to 1-3 years in prison, and may be released as soon as this November. Jessica Altruz, who hit 67-year-old Margaret Fisher as she was carrying groceries across West 93rd Street, told the Fisher family to "please accept my sincerest apologies from the bottom of my heart," the Daily News reports, "It was not my intention to flee the scene of the accident but rather an automatic response to fear." more ›

NYPD investigators are looking into whether 19-year-old Michael Muniz got special treatment by the NYPD after a hit-and-run that left a Radio City Hall usher with a broken leg. Muniz's mother Alice happens to be a NYPD officer, and a police source tells the Daily News—you're not gonna believe this—someone may have done a favor for Muniz, who was only issued a desk appearance ticket after finally turning himself in last month, 11 days after the accident. Internal Affairs is investigating, and you can be sure they'll leave no stone unturned, because Muniz's mom works in Internal Affairs. more ›

A pedestrian in the Bronx and bicyclist in Queens were victims of separate hit-and-run crashes over the weekend. In the Bronx, police quickly rounded up a suspect: Seth Johnson, 35, who was allegedly intoxicated at around 4:30 a.m. Sunday and fatally struck Thomas Riley, 23, who was trying to flag a cab on East Fordham Road near Bathgate Avenue. Police sources tell the Post that Johnson stopped and got out of his minivan after the accident, but when a witness tried to grab him, he drove off. more ›

Police have charged Mario Vasquez of Brooklyn with vehicular manslaughter, reckless endangerment, leaving the scene of crime with a fatality, unauthorized use of a vehicle, driving a motor vehicle without a license and driving while intoxicated after he hit 80-year-old Maria Prikul and her caretaker on Bath Avenue and 18th Avenue yesterday morning, dragging Prikul a full block and leaving her dead. Passersby made Vasquez stop his car and helped to lift the van off Prikul. One good Samaritan said, "I looked at her face, but she was already dead. Her clothes were ripped. There was blood in her mouth." more ›

[UPDATE BELOW] Yesterday, two hit and runs in the city left one disabled grandmother dead and one Brooklyn girl in the ICU with a punctured lung. Around 4 a.m., 58-year-old Ilia Lopez was struck by a livery cab on E. 121st St. at Second Avenue. The driver reportedly sped off with Lopez still on the hood of the car; she didn't fall off until he hit E. 120th Street and First avenue. She was pronounced dead at Harlem Hospital, but the New York State Federation of Taxi Drivers wants to make sure nobody gets a bad view of livery drivers because of this. more ›

Police charged a driver with a DWI, plus vehicular assault and leaving the scene of an accident, after he struck a delivery man on Friday night. Ricardo Gonzalez had been biking up Eighth Avenue when he was struck from behind by Clark Gettiner, who was in a Lexus. According to the Post, Gettinger, 40, "struck Gonzalez with so much force Friday night that he was thrown from his bike and skidded 20 feet down slush-soaked Eighth Avenue before ending up beneath a double-parked BMW." more ›

A 28-year-old delivery man on a bicycle was struck by two cars in Manhattan last night. First, a Lexus struck him from behind at Eighth Avenue and West 47th Street around 10:15 p.m. A witness told the Post that the driver "rammed into the 28-year-old bike rider near 47th Street with an impact so violent that the cyclist's head knocked out the windshield on the passenger side." In spite of that, the driver did not stop and kept going. Then the delivery man was run over by a BMW SUV, whose driver stopped and remained at the scene. Update: It turns out the bicyclist was thrown under a BMW SUV, which was double parked. more ›

A three-year-old boy is in critical condition after being hit by a van in Brooklyn last night. The boy was in a stroller, being pushed by his 13-year-old sister, and at the corner of Kent and Flushing Avenues, a van turning right onto Kent "hit the stroller and kept going," according to witnesses and the police. A witness told WABC 7, "The kid was trying to cry, but it looked like he was struggling." more ›

A five-year-old boy who was struck by a SUV in August has finally returned home from the hospital. Joshua Saunders was chasing a ball into East 214th Street outside his home when an allegedly speeding vehicle hit him, breaking his legs, arm, and some ribs and puncturing his lungs. According to WABC 7, doctors weren't sure if he wasn't going to make it, "But he's recovered so well that he was released from the hospital Thursday and showered with gifts, including a new bike." more ›