Results tagged “hondacivic”

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.

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 down the block, striking three others along the way. The driver told police she swerved to avoid a vehicle in front of her and climbed onto the curb before sideswiping and shattering the front window of Bon Vivant Diner, located at 820 Broadway.

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 Honda Civic, shoving it into the intersection, and then smashed into a gray Dodge Neon while sideswiping a silver Hyundai Sonata.

Continue reading "Queens Car Crash Leaves Three Dead"

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 in New York City. A mechanic told me that I need to replace the clutch. I have my doubts, so how can I tell if I do need a new clutch? - William

Continue reading "Clutch Time for City Cars"

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 out, though that's the implicit suggestion, because what else can Gothamist think, when we read "$400/month parking fees" and "$2.29/gallon gas." And think about the potholes! And the crazy pedestrians! The cabs, the bad drivers from not-NYC, the delivery trucks, the bike messengers...riding in a car is almost as bad as driving a car in the city, but driving would force Gothamist to up our hours on the therapist's couch. Then again, Gothamist has barely driven since the new millennium and we will lie, steal, and cheat in order to befriend people who are nuts enough to own cars, with hopes of roadtrips to NJ malls where there's no sales tax. And there may be nothing truer than this wonderful quote in the article:

Susannah Perlman, who recently sold her 1989 Honda Civic, says: "Owning a car is not a crime. But in New York City they certainly make you feel like it is one."

Kevin So, Musician