More details have emerged about the gruesome crash on Staten Island that left one dead and several brutally injured. Brian Pittsley, the 25-year-old driver of the SUV that sped through a stop sign, causing the tragedy, claims that it was his car's fault. more ›

Police believe that the SUV driver who blew a stop sign on a Staten Island street, resulting in a crash that left an 18-year-old man dead and the amputation of a 17-year-old girl's arm, may have been drinking. Brian Pittsley, 25, had fled the grisly crash scene yelling "I don't need this sh--!" only to be arrested by cops in Brooklyn yesterday, exclaiming, "I let you guys catch me." more ›

Yesterday, three members of a Washington Heights family died after a horrifying crash on I-95 in North Carolina. NC authorities say the SUV blew a tire, making driver Rosanny Marte, 22, lose control. more ›

Remember how there was a beautiful—and huge—mountain lion killed by an SUV in Connecticut last month? And it turned out that the cat had walked all the way from South Dakota? Now it turns out the mountain lion made its way through NY State's Lake George—and that state Department of Environmental Conservation officials knew it was there but never told local officials that a 140-pound predatory cat was in their midst. Classic Albany! more ›

Friends of the 44-year-old stabbing victim who flipped his Range Rover over the curb, killing 13-year-old Kira Goddard on Saturday night, claim that the city is at fault in her death because they failed to pick up tree limbs in the road. "The only reason the car flipped over is because of the debris left in the street," a friend of Sean Lewis told the Post. Lewis was driving down Pacific Street in Brooklyn when he smashed into three parked vehicles, backed up and flipped over the curb, killing the girl as she rushed her five friends and sister to safety. more ›

The 44-year-old man who was driving the SUV that flipped over and killed 13-year-old Kira Goddard in Brooklyn Saturday night spent a total of four years in state prison for robbery and drug dealing. Sean Lewis, 44, was stabbed in the torso prior to striking three parked vehicles and backing his Range Rover into another, sending the car tumbling over the curb and fatally pinning her against her building. Lewis, who had at least 10 children (reports vary from 10 to 11), died in the hospital, where authorities discovered he'd been stabbed. "He was a real family man," his 24-year-old son Sean Norman tells the Post, "I'm mourning my father and also that innocent little girl. Neither of them deserved to die." more ›

A 13-year-old girl was killed last night after she helped six other children, including her younger sister, escape an out-of-control SUV that was being driven by a stabbing victim. CBS reports that 44-year-old Sean Lewis was driving erratically down Pacific Street when his Range Rover struck three parked vehicles, backed into another, and flipped over, killing the girl, Kira Goddard. Lewis died at Brookdale Hospital, and it was unclear whether he died of his stab wounds or from injuries sustained in the crash. "Everybody is devastated. I can't cry, I am so hurt," Goddard's mother, Joyce Lovelady, tells the Post. more ›

A Mitsubishi Montero SUV that tried to pass a Dodge Charger in Queens ended up sending the Charger into a horrible crash, killing a 19-year-old passenger on Friday night. According to the Daily News, "Police sources said [SUV driver Luis] Forero failed to pass the Charger and smashed into it, sending it careening into a fence and launching it onto its roof, where it slid upside down for about 150 feet." There's also a terrible picture of the mangled Charger. more ›

Around 3 a.m. this morning a Land Rover SUV carrying seven people flew off the FDR around 23rd street in Kips Bay, landed on the passenger side of a taxi 15 feet below, and rolled off onto its wheels. The cab was only carrying its driver. Altogether, eight people were injured, including two critically. more ›

A 23-year-old woman was struck by a SUV on West 46th Street at 3 a.m. yesterday—and police believe that the man who hit her was her boyfriend, because they found eventually the suspected hit-and-run driver, Ricaury Pena, in a wrecked Honda Pilot on the Harlem River Drive at 8 a.m. And the Post thickens the pilot: Pena, 28, was driving his wife's car. more ›

One survivor of the SUV crash on the Garden State Parkway spoke out yesterday about the tragedy that claimed three teenagers' lives. Victor Whiteaker, who was in the SUV driven by his fiancee's father, said, "All of a sudden, I saw a black car fly past us and cut us off. It must have been going 150 mph! I heard her dad [Dimitrios Iliopoulos] scream, ‘Vinny! Vinny!’ as the car started weaving back and forth. I put my hands over my head and felt the car flip." more ›

Yesterday three Staten Island families were struck by tragedy when an SUV carrying seven people overturned on the Garden State Parkway. A 2003 Ford Expedition driven by Dimitrios "Jimmy" Iliopoulos, 54, "swerved and then smashed into a right-hand guardrail" and "overturned at least twice." Iliopoulos' sons Hlias, 18, and Chrystoph, 13, and their friend Eric Colligan, 15, were thrown from the SUV into the highway and died. more ›

Yesterday afternoon, a driver with a suspended license was backing up on Amsterdam Avenue to get a parking space and struck two women crossing the street at West 98th Street. Yolanda Casal, 78, was pronounced dead at the hospital while the other woman, her 41-year-old daughter Anais Emanuel, was in stable condition. A witness told the Post, "They had the right of way and that guy just kept backing up. He was trying to get that spot." more ›

A SUV and a MTA bus, the B15, crashed in a parking lot at JFK Airport last night, killing one person in the SUV and injuring at least eight others. The accident occurred near Parking Lot 8, "on Pan Am Avenue off Lefferts Boulevard near the employee parking lot, across from long term parking," according to WABC 7. more ›

A 16-year-old Long Island girl's driving lesson went horribly wrong when she jumped a curb and hit a nine-year-old boy biking on the sidewalk. According to Newsday, Nassau County Police Det. Sgt. Richard Callahan explained that the teen, who was in a Nissan Xterra SUV with her mom, "became alarmed Thursday when she saw an oncoming car in her rearview mirror and poorly negotiated a turn... When she noticed a car bearing down on her, Callahan said, she accelerated but made too wide a turn. Her SUV went up on the curb and hit Andrew Burrous of Floral Park, his mother and a parked Honda." The teen received her learner's permit two weeks ago. more ›

Jamieson Prince of the Bronx is suing the NYPD for $1 million after he was arrested for "stealing" his own car in November. Cops allegedly cuffed Prince as he was getting ready to drive his daughters to school in his 2007 GMC Yukon, and would not listen to him when he said he had papers proving ownership. Here's how the mixup went down. more ›

Miraculously, no one was killed in yesterday's Queens Village crash involving an 18-wheeler truck, a minivan, an SUV and the Q43 (or Q46) bus. The crash took place at the intersection of Hillside Avenue and the Clearview Expressway, where witnesses say the bus was "zooming from the ramp" at about 60 mph. It then slammed into the van and the SUV, which produced a chain reaction that left the 18-wheeler knocked against a building. The witness told the Post, "I thought people were dead. Good thing there were no people on the street." more ›

Yesterday afternoon, a 73-year-old man driving a Lexus SUV struck a woman who was pushing her 6-month-old son in a stroller on Broadway near 37th Street in Astoria, Queens. The Daily News reports that the vehicle "shot down the sidewalk like a pinball... It blazed a trail of destruction for about half a block before it mowed the woman down from behind - sending her son and the stroller hurtling through the air." Amazingly, the boy did not appear to be hurt when he landed. The mother, who was rescued from beneath the car, is expected to survive. The driver allegedly told the cops his brakes failed and wasn't charged or given a summons; a police source said, "It's just an accident." more ›

Sheepshead Bites nabbed this gnarly photo this morning of an NYPD SUV flipped over on its side on the sidewalk. "A neighbor described the scene as 'horrible' after witnessing the police officers loaded into ambulances, and said both officers looked like they were in bad condition," writes Bites. "The westbound Belt Parkway was temporarily shut down to aid in their transport to the hospital...The incident occurred around 8:45 a.m. when the civilian car ran a stop sign and clipped the police vehicle, according to a neighbor." But it turns out that nobody was seriously injured, so you don't have to feel bad about enjoying the photo. more ›

The Post follows up with some more details about the horrible crash in the East Village early Sunday morning that involved a taxi cab hitting an SUV and ending up in The Bean coffee shop at First Avenue and Third Street. Five people, including a 71-year-old man sitting on the bench outside, were injured. Here's how the Post explains the incident: more ›

The police are searching for the driver of the SUV that struck a five-year-old boy in the Kingsbridge section of the Bronx last night. Joshua Saunders was ran into East 214th Street to chase a ball his older brother hit when a SUV, described as a green Nissan Pathfinder, hit him and continued on without stopping. The Daily News says he was dragged halfway down the street while a neighbor told the Post, "This psycho comes out of nowhere and knocks Joshua 30 feet into the air. My heart sunk -- he looked like a rag doll in the air." more ›

Uh-oh: While responding to a call about a surfer in distress, WABC 7 reports, "A sunbather was run over by a police officer driving on the beach to respond to a reported water rescue in Long Beach this afternoon. The victim was lying in a chair when he was run over by the sport utility vehicle just before 12:30 p.m... The sunbather, a man in his 40s, was rushed by helicopter to Nassau University Medical Center." The Long Beach Police, whose officer was involved in the incident, is asking the Nassau County Police to conduct the investigation. WABC 7 adds, "The victim's chair was low to the ground, and it may have been obstructed by the sand." 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 ›

The owner of a prototype BMW that was left parked and running under a tarp on Central Park West and triggered a bomb scare yesterday was issued a summons for idling his vehicle. Martin Birkmann, a BMW brand manager, had mistakenly left the oddly designed X3 prototype running while he and his girlfriend had a picnic in the park. The car apparently runs so silently that he didn't even notice. more ›

A black SUV "with a white circle on it" and New Jersey plates triggered closed roads from 77th to 81st Streets and response from bomb technicians earlier this afternoon. The SUV was parked on 77th Street and Central Park West, dangerously close to the American Museum of Natural History. As of 1 p.m. the police had located the owner and was conducting an interview, and at 1:50 p.m. the roads were reopened. Bomb technicians have yet to determine whether the car contained anything dangerous. UPDATE: Westside Independent is reporting the SUV was a prototype BMW with no registration and special markings on it. It was also allegedly parked with its engine running in front of a fire hydrant, and was covered with a tarp. more ›

The NYPD is using at least $24 million of federal money to expand the "Ring of Steel" surveillance network to midtown. But would it have caught the SUV bomb that was parked on 45th Street in Times Square on Saturday? Yes and no, say those with familiarity with the high-tech plans. more ›

While the Pakistani Taliban claimed credit for the Times Square car bomb found last night, today the police said there's no evidence of any link so far. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said, "Although we have not yet determined whether the Times Square car bomb is linked to any specific terrorist organization, we are working very closely with the FBI through the Joint Terrorist Task Force on this case." more ›