Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'hondaaccord'
March 3, 2008
Five different car crashes in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens have left five people dead yesterday. At Atlantic Avenue and Buffalo Street, a Honda Accord carrying four people hit a subway station pillar (pictured; via the Post) after midnight. Two of the passengers, a 25-year-old Naquana Kilpatrick and 17-year-old Gilberto Howard, died while the 19-year-old driver and another passenger were injured. Another car crash in Brooklyn claimed two lives: A car hit an unoccupied box truck......
Continue Reading "Five Killed in Five Separate Car Accidents"November 12, 2007
A 66-year-old man driving a Nissan Maxima was fatally hit by a drunk driver on Woodhaven Boulevard, between 101st Avenue and 97th Avenue in Ozone Park. Twenty-five-year-old Christopher Rivera, driving a Honda Accord, crossed the road's median around 10:45PM and slammed into the Maxima driving in the opposite direction. The Maxima then hit a third car, a BMW. The Maxima's driver was pronounced dead at the scene, his passenger was injured, as well as Rivera......
Continue Reading "Drunk Driver Causes Fatal Crash in Queens"July 28, 2007
Some more sad details about the Tuesday car crash in Virginia that claimed the lives of six people, five of them believed to be siblings in a Bronx family of Trinidadian immigrants. The fire destroyed the Honda Accord so badly that mother Pamela Ramharrack of the Bronx was asked to go to Virginia to identify the bodies, but she was only able to identify her 13-year-old son Anderson. She must gather more dental records to......
Continue Reading "Sadness for Bronx Family, Friends After Fatal Car Crash"July 27, 2007
A Honda Accord carrying six members of a Trinidadian family died after their car crashed on U.S. 58 in Virginia Tuesday afternoon. Police say the Accord's driver had lost control, overcorrected, and crossed the median before hitting an oncoming industrial drill rig. The rig's driver Bill Sanderlin told the Daily News, "I don't know what happened on their side, but they came across kind of at a high rate of speed and they got airborne.......
Continue Reading "Six Bronx Residents Die in Virginia Car Crash"July 24, 2007
A 17-year-old girl was killed after a drag racing incident on Staten Island last night. According to the Advance, a 2003 Honda Accord and 1994 Ford Mustang crashed into each other on Veterans Road West near a Charleston shopping mall. Six other teens were injured. The Ford, which had a tank of nitrous oxide (to help it go faster) in the trunk, swerved across the road. The Honda "smacked into a metal stanchion protecting a......
Continue Reading "Fatal Staten Island Drag Race"May 7, 2006
During broad daylight, a gunman shot at a livery cab in Harlem at least 10 times, killing its passenger. Bullets hit the passenger side window and door as the car was on East 129th Street between Park and Lexington Avenues. The NY Times reports that a witness tried to follow the shooter's car, a beige, gray or gold Honda Accord, but "lost track of it on the Grand Central Parkway in Queens." The vicitim, Reginald......
Continue Reading "Livery Cab Passenger Killed By Gunman"October 27, 2005
We had kicked back to watch TV the other evening - live, not TiVo'd - when we started to see an "I ♥ NY" logo on screen. Awesome, we though, as the logo got bigger. But then the NY was replaced by...a freaking Honda Accord! Honda paid NY State $45,000 to use the logo in their ad which is appearing in the NY-area, and to us, that's getting peanuts. No wonder NY State has so......
Continue Reading "I Love NY, Not A Honda"
