A three pound rock that fell from a truck flew through a car windshield, killing the front passenger in Old Brookville. Seventy-five-year-old Rita Oill was pronounced dead at North Shore University Hospital an hour after the 10:15AM incident. She and her daughter Marie Waters were out to do some Thanksgiving shopping. The truck's driver did not stop. Newsday reports that the rock was "about five inches in circumference and about two inches in diameter" and......

Eight friends, two cars, and one fatality. Early yesterday morning, friends, piled into a Chevrolet Blazer and a Honda Civic, were crashed at "dead man's curve" on the Cross Island Parkway. A 19-year-old passenger was killed while the others were injured, two critically. The drivers of the two vehicles were charged: 18-year-old Bolivar Camacho, driving the Civic, and 20-year-old Milton Flores, in the Blazer, were charged with manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide and vehicular assault; Flores......

An out of control Honda Civic hit four people after jumping a curb at Broadway between East 11th and 12th Streets early yesterday evening. The car also hit a diner's window and stopped only when it crashed into a light post a block away. From the Washington Square News:The driver of the black, four-door Honda Civic, described by eyewitnesses as a middle-aged female, reportedly hit one victim at 12th Street and Broadway and continued driving......

Yesterday morning, a Windstar minivan crashed into a number of cars, including crushing a Dodge Neon whose three passengers were killed. The Windstar careened down Springfield Boulevard in Queens towards 144th Avenue, crashing into cars and came to a stop after flipping over. The minivan driver apparently suffered a seizure. From the NY Times:According to witnesses and the police, about 10 a.m. a silver Ford Windstar heading south on Springfield Boulevard rammed into a black......

This might be the most comprehensive sign that owning a car in New York City is an act against Mother Nature. Or building engineering. There's a NY Times story on how cars will finally be dug out after being buried by a dirt landsilde in Washington Heights last year. What's crazy is how many owners have to pay for towing their cars out themselves.Another buried car, a red 1993 Honda Civic, belongs to Sarah......

Gothamist doesn't find much opportunity to listen to Car Talk as we don't have a car and the only kind of driving we do, much to our shame, is the backseat kind ("No, we're sure there's an exit to Murray Street past Chambers!"). But we found a recent discussion about car clutches interesting:Question: I have a 1988 Honda Civic with a five-speed manual transmission. The mileage on the car is 75,000 -- all short trips......

Crain's New York says that fewer New Yorkers own cars, due to lack of parking spaces, increasing costs (insurance, gas), and more fines. According to a study, it costs almost $10,000 to maintain a car in New York City, which has led to the 5% decrease in car ownership since 2000. Hmm, $10,000 would be at least around 500 late-night car rides to or from Brooklyn. Interestingly enough, preserving mental health was not specifically called......

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