At around 12:30 a.m. earlier today, a 16-year-old bicyclist was struck by a driver at Webster Avenue and East 188th Street in the Bronx. And the driver was a 23-year-old woman who didn't have a license. WABC 7 reports that the teen was critically injured and taken to St. Barnabas Hospital; the driver had a non-life-threatening injury and was also hospitalized. Also, the driver received a summons for driving without a license. more ›

Jacob Chubalashvili was arraigned yesterday on charges including second-degree manslaughter for crashing into an Acura, killing its two passengers immediately in Forest Hills on Tuesday morning. The Queens DA's office released some of the 17-year-old unlicensed driver's statements:

[On the morning of August 5] Chubalashvili said, “I just took the car, I didn’t have permission to take it. I smoked some marijuana before I took the car... I remember taking the car, it’s a Mercedes and jetting down the road and the next thing I remember is waking up in the hospital.” more ›