Attention turned to the car that Sean Bell and his friends were sitting in and a gun that was instrumental in his death at the trial of three police accused of killing him. Cops at the scene accuse Bell of striking one of the detectives with the Nissan Altima in an attempt to flee the scene, initiating a barrage of gunfire that mortally wounded the driver and seriously injured his two passengers. The bullet riddled......

Testimony picked up again yesterday in the trial of three police officers for fatally shooting an unarmed man in 2006. The prosecution called friends of victim Sean Bell and the commanding officer of the undercover operation to the stand. Bell was to be married on November 25, 2006, and the night before, he and his friends were celebrating with a bachelor party at Club Kalua, a topless bar in Jamaica, Queens. Friend Hugh Jensen said......

Early this morning, a city medical examiner's van crashed into a Nissan Altima on Fort Hamilton Parkway, leaving the Altima's driver and front passenger dead and at least five others injured. Around 3:30AM, van was headed south on the parkway when it was "struck by the Altima, traveling east on 44th Street." The van flipped over, critically injuring the driver and passenger. Customers at a Laundromat went outside to help and one told WNBC,......

Of course police chases are bad ideas, but a worse idea might be fleeing the crash and leaving your 2-year-old in the car. Yet this is exactly what a Roosevelt man did in Hempstead last night. The Hempstead police say that a village police detective tried to stop a 2007 Nissan Altima for a traffic violation. But the car refused to stop, so the police followed the car (and befitting a suburban car chase, additional......

The driver who ran over cab driver Mohamed Elwaleed after an early Tuesday morning argument was arrested in Pennsylvania yesterday. Luis Flores, 24, told authorities he didn't mean to kill the cab driver, and authorities believe him. Flores, while driving his cousin's Nissan Altima, had apparently gotten into an accident with Elwaleed, a 44-year-old Sudanese immigrant. Elwaleed followed Flores for a few blocks, in hopes of trading insurance information. At Madison Avenue and East 65th......

The police are still looking for the driver who drove a Nissan Altima into 44-year-old taxi driver Mohamed Elwaleed yesterday. Elwaleed was pinned under the car and died, and the driver and his female passenger fled the intersection at Madison Avenue and East 65th Street on the Upper East Side. A witness who was walking his dog at the time told the Post that the cab and Nissan got into an accident near Central Park,......

A taxi driver was fatally run over by another driver at Madison and East 65th Street shortly after midnight. Police believe that the taxi got into an accident with a black Nissan Altima, and then two drivers got into an argument. After the taxi driver got out of the cab, the Nissan's driver hit him. The Nissan's driver and passenger, a man and a woman, fled the scene, and witnesses say the taxi driver was......

Expensive designer jeans - the downfall of criminals! The police - and onlookers - ended up chasing a pair of women who had been using a stolen credit card in Soho for many blocks yesterday afternoon. A cashier at the True Religion denim store on Prince Street noticed that Frances Chanelle was using a stolen Discover card - and a forged Virginia's driver license - when buying $1,500 in clothing, so the store called......

With all the shopping, parties and stress the holidays bring, is this actually the most dangerous time of the year? In one day, four people died in four separate traffic accidents. Newsday summarized the incidents:- 94 year old Charlotte Paula Walz was killed when walking to a mailbox in Rego Park Friday evening; the driver stayed at the scene and was not issued a summons - A Nissan 350 hit a Nissan Altima at 108th......

On what would have been his wedding day, Sean Bell's friends and family, as well as other activists, politicians, and members of the community, held a vigil/protest/rally for Bell, Joseph Guzman and Trent Benefield. Bell was killed during a confrontation with the police after his bachelor party at the Queens strip club Kalua Lounge on Saturday morning. Guzman and Benefield were injured and remain in the hospital. The police fired 50 shots in less......

There are more questions than answers today as the police investigate an encounter three men had with the police in Queens early Saturday morning. The police ended up shooting at the men's car, killing a man on the day of his wedding and wounding his two friends. The men were not armed. The three men, Sean Bell, Joseph Guzman, and Trent Benefield, had just left the Kalua Lounge, a strip club, for Bell's bachelor......

It's established that it's hot in the city - there were a couple power outages in Brooklyn and Yonkers (Con Ed said Monday had the second highest power usage on record!) and firefighters suffered heat exhaustion at a Brooklyn fire - but overall, things were okay, if sticky. Yet who knew that it would be hot enough to cause the third rail on the A line out in the Rockaways to buckle, leaving commuters......

Adrien Brody, Oscar-winning boy from Queens made good, got into a car accident Saturday at Orchard Street and Delancey. According to the Post, he tried to switch lanes quickly, crashing his rented Chevy Tahoe into a Nissan Altima. The other car's owner, Heidi Hong, said that Brody was annoyed and asked her, "Didn't you see me? Why didn't you make room for me?" Brody then tried to get Hong to exchange information, but Hong called......