Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'stolencar'
February 28, 2008
The police are upset with Staten Island car owners. Why? Because many tend to leave their keys in the ignition, giving a free ride to thieves. Out of the 76 cars reported stolen for 2008, the NYPD says 24 of them had the keys in the ignition. And then another 10 vehicles were stolen because the keys were, per the Advance, in the "glovebox, on the ground of a parking lot or discovered inside a......
Continue Reading "Staten Island Car Owners Are an Easy Target"February 28, 2008
Images from WNBC Earlier this morning, around 1:30AM, police were chasing a stolen car in Brooklyn, at 93rd Street and 4th Avenue, but the 1997 Nissan slipped away, heading onto the Belt Parkway. The cops later found it on the Parkway at 65th Street, after it had crashed into a car carrying four people, killing one. The stolen car had "rammed into the back" of the other car. The three other passengers, including a......
Continue Reading "Stolen Car Chase Ends in Fatal Belt Parkway Crash "January 22, 2008
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,......
Continue Reading "Fort Hamilton Parkway Crash Leaves 2 Dead"
