Two sisters were hit by an SUV that "barreled down Richards Street" in Brooklyn yesterday evening. The girls had been grocery shopping with their mother, who had been pushing the grocery cart and was not hurt. The family was apparently steps away from their building door. The SUV, driven by a 48-year-old man, jumped the curb, hit the girls, then, per the Daily News, "continued on for some 200 feet, striking two parked cars" and......

Shocked family and friends are mourning the deaths of four people who died in a car accident on East Tremont Avenue near Commonwealth early yesterday morning. The police believe that the GMC Envoy was traveling at least 80 MPH (and witnesses think it was closer to 90-95 MPH) when it hit a utility pole and flipped over twice. The NY Times reports the car "hit the pole with such force that its roof was shorn......

A drunk man driving a Lincoln Aviator slammed into people delivering groceries at restaurant on Seventh Avenue South near Grove Street yesterday morning. Antonio Barranco Hernandez, who had taken a delivery shift over from his son, died after the impact of the SUV severed his leg. A witness told the Daily News, "[The SUV] was going very fast. The car cut his leg. The leg, right off." The SUV was driven by NJ resident Christian......

State Senator Carl Marcellino of Oyster Bay and Assemblyman Felix Ortiz of Brooklyn are co-sponsoring a bill to stop drivers from text messaging while driving. Last month, an SUV driven by a 17-year-old girl crashed into a tractor trailer upstate in Ontario County. The SUV's driver, Bailey Goodman, and the four friends in the car all died on impact (the tractor trailer's driver was uninjured). Investigators found that text messages had been sent from and......

A few details about the Bay Ridge incident that killed a female pedestrian and injured other pedestrians yesterday afternoon. At 86th Street and 5th Avenue, reports say that the driver of a Honda CR-V "made a wrong turn" (1010 WINS) and/or "mashed the accelerator" (Daily News). The SUV jumped the curb, first hit Lance Sevorwell (throwing him 15 feet in the air), and then pinned Lyudmila Piyavskaya, a 53-year-old Ukrainian woman, against the wall of......

Some updates to two Tuesday murders that took place in Brooklyn. First, Janine Harrington, who ran over one of her boyfriends with her SUV, was denied bail. Harrington, who thought that Jeffrey Moore had cheated on her, ran over Moore as he was riding on a bicycle near Chauncey and Rockaway. The SUV belonged to Harrington's different, live-in boyfriend. Police are still looking for William Van Utrecht, who is suspected of shooting his brother Steven......

Yesterday afternoon, a burglar's ransacking of a police officer's Bayside apartment led to a police chase that culminated with the SUV crashing into a mini-school bus. The SUV and bus collided on the Douglaston Parkway near Van Zandt Avenue, and 12 people, including eight children, the bus escort and the bus driver, were taken to hospitals for injuries. The driver of the stolen SUV tried to escape on foot but was chased down by police.......

NJ Governor Jon Corzine left Cooper University Hospital this afternoon, after spending over two weeks recovering from his April 12 car accident. Pushed out in a wheelchair by his children Jeff and Jennifer, the governor spoke to the crowd outside:Via the Star-Ledger: "I understand I set a very poor example for a lot of young people, a lot of people in general. I hope the state will forgive me." Via the NY Times: “I set......

A totally wild carjacking unfolded yesterday across two boroughs. A man stole an orange Range Rover SUV at a Queens car wash, and then tried to run over a cop who stopped him at the Whitestone Bridge in the Bronx. The SUV's owner David Irish had called the police when his car was stolen from the car wash, so authorities were on the look out. Around 12:15pm, Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority Police Office Chidir......

The intersection of 94th Street and Ditmars Boulevard in Queens became the scene of a violent confrontation last night. An off-duty corrections officer shot another man during a struggle that stemmed from road rage. Officer Emilio Maldonado, who works at a correctional facility in Bedford Hills, honked his car's horn when the SUV in front of him didn't move during the green light. The SUV's driver and passenger, brothers Chris and Leroy Kenner, got out......

A horrible accident occurred on the West Side Highway yesterday afternoon. Police say that Michael Rush was speeding while intoxicated in the southbound lanes near West 92nd Street and rear-ended a SUV. The SUV crashed into the median and burst into flames, and joggers nearby helped pull the driver out of the burning car (the driver suffered a broken pelvis and leg). Then Rush's car crashed and flipped over, killing a woman in the backseat.......

Yesterday afternoon, a police chase in the Flatlands section ended with the car's driver being shot dead by the police and a police officer injured. Two plainclothes cops pulled over a maroon SUV that had been speeding at 90 MPH and ran a red light. When the officers went to the car, they saw the driver holding a 9mm gun. Here's the police's preliminary account, from Newsday:The sergeant and officer were riding in an unmarked......

A drunk woman fatally hit a pedestrian in a Staten Island parking lot - and not only was the driver drunk, she also naked during the incident. The police say Taliyah Taylor drove her Nissan Maxima into an intersection late last night, hitting 41 year old Larry Simon. Her car then "sideswiped a Toyota, kept going west for about 300 yards, jumped a curb and hurtled an six-foot fence into a parking lot shared by......

Last night, a man was crossing Queens Boulevard at 67th Avenue when a silver SUV hit him without stopping. The 59 year old man had been returning home from Yom Kippur services, and Queens DA Richard Brown said, "I'm troubled. I went to temple myself today. It's the most important day of the Jewish calendar, and apparently he was on his way home from temple after observing the holiday, and to have this happen to......

An SUV flipped on the FDR, crashing into another car and taxi, on Saturday morning, killing one of the SUV's passengers who happened to be the cousin of the driver. Herman Thomas was charged with DWI and vehicular homicide - and it turns out he only had a NY State learner's permit - for the accident that happened near East 76th Street; his 15 year old cousin, Kenneth Myrick, died. Police think that Thomas had......

There were three fatal hit-and-runs over the weekend. Yesterday, a 74 year-old man was killed when crossing a street in Woodside, Queens. He had gone to buy the newspapers, coffee, and milk "as he did every morning," reports Newsday, when a Mitsubishi "slammed into him." Police did find a car matching the description, but when the police questioned the driver (who was talking on a cellphone), the driver drove off. Then the car was found......