A taxi cab passenger was struck by another vehicle on the FDR Drive last night around 96th Street. According to WABC 7, the cab was stuck in traffic at 11:30 p.m., and the man "apparently didn't want to wait for the car to move again, so he jumped out and tried to run across the highway. He was then struck by the driver of a minivan headed south." more ›

An elderly Queens woman is fighting for her life after a minivan, which was trying to back into a parking space, struck her on 75th Avenue in Queens yesterday morning. Neighbors say that 92-year-old Ilonko Krauss survived Auschwitz during World War II. more ›

Yesterday evening, a 10-year-old boy was struck by a cab on LaSalle Street in Morningside Heights. A witness, Sabrina Johnson, told WCBS 2, "He was not driving fast at all. It’s like the little kid ran into the car and the impact spinned him around and pinned in the fetal position underneath the car." more ›

A man was struck and killed by an L train at Halsey Street in Brooklyn, which means there is a service suspension. NYC Transit Tweeted, " L now suspended b/t Bedford Ave & Atlantic Ave; NYPD investigation of customer struck by train ongoing at Halsey St." The incident occurred a little before 9 p.m., and it's made traveling on the L difficult—just check out these Tweets: more ›

An appeals court ruled yesterday that the city can't be held financially responsible for the actions of a traffic cop and their ensuing consequences. In 2006, Stella Lewis was crossing the street to Penn Station. She had the light, but a traffic cop waved a bus through its red light. The bus struck Lewis, causing her brain injury and the loss of three of her toes. more ›

Yesterday at around 5:40 p.m., a woman crossing an Upper East Side street was struck by a private garbage truck driver. And it turns out the driver had a suspended license. Laurence Renard, a 35-year-old fashion stylist, was crossing First Avenue at 90th Street "when the truck took a sharp left and smashed into her with such force that her body was severed,"according to the Post's sources. more ›

A three-year-old boy is in critical condition after being hit by a van in Brooklyn last night. The boy was in a stroller, being pushed by his 13-year-old sister, and at the corner of Kent and Flushing Avenues, a van turning right onto Kent "hit the stroller and kept going," according to witnesses and the police. A witness told WABC 7, "The kid was trying to cry, but it looked like he was struggling." more ›

[An Assemblyman wants the Manhattan DA's office to investigate—UPDATE BELOW] Yesterday, 21-year-old Jason King was fatally hit by a Mack truck backing up through an intersection on the Upper East Side. Driver Anthony Regisford was issued one summons for failing to secure a load and another one for not having a medical card, and police say that King may have been unable to hear the truck because he was listening to his iPod. However, critics are saying that shouldn't be an issue, especially because of a little thing called Elle's Law. more ›

A 21-year-old pedestrian was fatally struck by a Mack truck while crossing E. 81st Street and Madison Avenue this morning, and police believe he may have been distracted by the music emanating from his ear buds. The truck backed into him, dragging him for about 30 feet, and police found an iPod Nano and headphones on the pavement near the victim. The 51-year-old truck driver remained on the scene and was not charged. In 2007, State Senator Carl Kruger proposed a ban on using iPods while crossing the street, saying users are "tuning out the world around them." more ›

A Spanish tourist is in critical condition with serious head trauma after getting run over by a livery cab as she crossed Third Avenue at 42nd Street last night around 10:30. Maria Hermosin Jimenez, 58, was crossing the avenue at the crosswalk with her husband when she has hit by the car; she sustained serious head trauma and is currently at Bellevue Hospital. Her husband was not injured. The Daily News reports that the driver, Dave St. Bernard, 53, of Brooklyn, was issued a summons for failing to yield to a pedestrian. You may remember St. Bernard from an article in the Post last year, in which he told the tabloid about his penchant for texting and driving. more ›

A woman is in critical condition after being hit by an empty school bus in Gravesend yesterday afternoon. The woman was carrying groceries while crossing Ocean Parkway near Avenue X. She had the light, but it changed when she was halfway across the street, and the Grandpa's Bus Co. Inc. bus crashed into her. One witness told the Daily News, "I heard the noise and went to help her. She was already bleeding from [her] head and mouth." more ›

A 70-year-old woman was struck and killed by a van at the corner of Third Avenue and 30th Street yesterday afternoon. Cecelia Penkala was hit by the van and dragged for half a block, and one witness told the Daily News, "I ran over and I saw her on the street under the car. She was bleeding everywhere and she wasn't moving at all." Driver Liu Zeng Yu was issued a summons for failure to yield to a pedestrian. Whatever happened to Elle's Law? more ›

Last night, after 9:30 p.m., a woman was struck and dragged by a livery cab in Midtown East. According to WABC 7, "Eyewitnesses say the car ran a red light and hit the woman as she crossed East 54th Street at Lexington Avenue Thursday night. The victim was pinned under the car. People had to bang on the driver's window to let him know he hit someone. Several men then lifted the car to free the woman." She was taken to New York Presbyterian and is in critical condition. It's unclear if the driver was charged. more ›

Earlier this morning, three pedestrians were struck by a car being pursued by the police. The incident occurred at West 122nd Street and Lenox Avenue, when the car jumped the curb. The Post says the police were involved in a "high-speed chase": "Cops were chasing the man because he was believed to be in possession of a gun." more ›

A reader sent us this photo last night of an incident Broadway and 100th Street. He tells us: "A Black SUV with sirens on was driving at high speeds uptown against a red light. Apparently swerving to avoid a car crossing against him (a small sports car which suffered a fender scrape, and which left the scene before police arrived), the driver of the SUV crashed into two parked cars on the east side of Broadway. A pedestrian was hit and thrown halfway across the sidewalk, bleeding out. He was taken away by ambulances..." more ›

A Queens mother is in critical condition after being run down by a car after dropping her son off at school. Security cameras show the woman lifting her arms to shield herself from the impact of the oncoming car, and a witness said, "The crossing guard was screaming, 'Stop! Stop! Stop!' but the vehicle just flew by and struck her." The guard had already signaled for traffic to stop at the intersection of 202nd Street and 53rd Avenue. more ›

A tipster writes that at around 11:45 a.m. "what looks to be an elderly Asian man was run over by a Lucky Star bus at the intersection of Canal and Essex streets." We heard that the man, who is around 80 years old, was trapped under the bus and was taken to Bellevue with multiple trauma. Related: Yesterday, three pedestrians were injured at 90th and Park Avenue on the Upper East Side when a driver lost control, jumped a curb and crashed through scaffolding (some of the scaffolding fell down). more ›

A jury awarded a Brooklyn man $40 million after he was "left brain damaged and partially paralyzed" when a Verizon truck hit him a few years ago. According to the Post, "Matthew Falcone, 53, was in a coma for weeks following the September 2006 incident in which he was hit by a Verizon vehicle going 50 mph in a 30-mph zone on Stillwell Avenue in Gravesend." Verizon tried to argue that Falcone was at fault when he "stuck his head out into the road from behind an elevated train pillar" and that only a side-view mirror struck him. But the jury saw "photos of the truck's shattered windshield and headlights, which indicated the collision was much more severe." Verizon may appeal the decision. more ›

Yesterday morning, a crash between two SUVs led to a 59-year-old pedestrian's death on Staten Island. According to the Staten Island Advance, after a Chevy Tahoe and Subaru Forester collided, the impact sent the Tahoe onto the curb at Slosson Avenue at Windsor Road, and into Beata Kurpiewski and 3-year-old Philip Kurpiewski. more ›

According to the NY Post, "A livery cab driver plowed into a woman and her 4-year-old son as she was walking him to nursery school... nearly killing the boy, cops said. The 27-year-old man was driving a black Lincoln southbound on Broadway at 230th Street around 8:30 a.m., when he rammed into the 41-year-old Bronx woman and her son crossing at the intersection." The boy is in critical condition while the mother is in stable condition. Also: "The driver stayed at the scene and was not charged." more ›

Around 4:30 a.m. this morning, two pedestrians were struck by a hit-and-run driver at Flatbush Avenue and Prospect Place in Brooklyn. According to WCBS 2, the victims were two women in their 20s, "When rescuers arrived at the scene, one woman was unconscious, the other was lucid." more ›

After former police commissioner Howard Safir backed his SUV into a pregnant lady on the Upper East Side, it was initially reported that he would not face charges. However, Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance's spokesperson said it would investigate the matter, because "traffic accidents involving pedestrians or cyclists are a serious concern in Manhattan." Well, now, nearly a month later, Vance's office is closing the book on the matter, telling the Times, "Our office conducted a further factual inquiry as we often do. We found no evidence of a crime, and the matter is closed." more ›

According to the NY Times, former police commissioner commissioner Howard Safir, who served under Rudy Giuliani between 1996 and 2000, "backed his sport utility vehicle into a pregnant woman on the Upper East Side on Friday afternoon and then drove away." Fortunately, the woman, who is seven months pregnant, "was not knocked down and was not seriously injured in the accident." And police, who were able to track Safir down because the woman took down his Escalade's license plate, "determined there is no criminality." more ›

A New York bus tour turned grisly yesterday morning as a Gray Line double-decker bus struck a woman outside of the United Nations. Lolaa Alrashied was crossing 42nd St and was struck by the bus and pinned underneath. She is currently listed in serious condition, with leg fractures and trauma, at Bellevue Hospital. more ›

WCBS 2 spoke to a tow truck driver who decided to chase down a Nissan Maxima driver who apparently hit a pedestrian and left the scene. Peter Dinome said, "The pedestrian was crossing the street. He had the right of way. As I started to chase [the Nissan's driver] he took me down Gun Hill Road. After I got down Gun Hill Road, I swung a u-turn. He took me back onto 95-South, down Pelham Parkway West, through the grass at 80mph. I'm doing 100 down the one way blocks. After that I lost him on Crosby Avenue, I'm coming back to where it happened, and there he comes running a red light. I stopped him there and I dragged him out of the car." Dinome added the driver said, "'I'm sorry,' he started crying and he wouldn't stop crying. I told him, 'did you realize what you just did?' And he goes, 'yeah, I'm sorry.'" The pedestrian, whose name hasn't been released, is in serious condition. The police say witnesses should call the cops and not take matters into their own hands. more ›

A Bronx father of three was struck by a car last night in Hunts Point around 11:15 p.m. and is now in critical condition. According to 1010WINS, "Octavio Reyes, 58...was hit after he parked his car and then attempted to cross Bruckner Blvd. on his way home... The vehicle -- described as a black Lincoln Town Car -- was traveling southbound on Bruckner Blvd. when the crash occurred." The car apparently has heavy windshield damage. Police are investigating the hit-and-run and urge anyone with information to contact them. more ›

Last night, a woman was injured when an out-of-control van came "skidding" off the Flushing Meadows-Corona Park exit in Queens. According to the Daily News, "the woman, who had come from Virginia to attend a high school reunion, was talking on a cell phone when the van smashed into the parked Toyota she was standing next to, police sources said." A witness told WABC 7, "The white van was on the expressway changing lane to lane and going very fast. For some reason it then turned towards the park, came on the grass, crashed into a blue car then hit one of the girls. She went flying up into the air and then the van just kept going and spinning around, eventually around the tree." The victim, Paula Jimenez, is reportedly in critical condition. The Post reports the driver, Jian Seng He, 49, was "charged with assault, reckless endangerment and leaving the scene of an accident"—he also may have been fleeing from another accident at the time. more ›

Last night, a man crossing Queens Boulevard at 44th Street was hit by an unmarked police car. The Daily News reports witnesses say the pedestrian Evelio Villa, 47, and his girlfriend had the right of way and the car went through a red light—"This guy was flying. He went like a bat out of hell. There was no screeching brakes, no tire marks, nothing." However, a police union source tells the paper that the car from the 109th Precinct had the green light and that Villa was intoxicated (another police source says the car turned on its sirens when it saw Villa). Villa's girlfriend says the car was going slow but actually accelerated as it approached, "I tried to grab him, but by that time he was in the air." Villa is in stable condition at Elmhurst Hospital with a fractured shoulder and the police officer driving the car has not been charged. more ›

Yesterday morning, a woman was struck by a SUV as she was crossing Amsterdam Avenue near West 145th Street. The victim, identified as Debbie Evans, was initially reported as dead—the Daily News reported, "The impact - which knocked Evans out of her shoes - instantly killed the mother of two, police said." However, WABC 7 says the 48-year-old woman is in a coma (the NYPD just told us, per their latest update from yesterday, that Evans was in critical condition; they are still waiting for today's update). At any rate, police are searching for the driver of a gray or silver SUV. One witness told the News, "I saw an SUV hit her, a little old lady walking across the street... The car was going faster than it should be; she never saw him. It's a travesty." Related: We're hearing some reports that a pedestrian was struck at Amsterdam near West 143rd around 7:30 a.m. this morning. more ›