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Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'vehicularmanslaughter'

July 6, 2008

If one ever needed an additional reason to buckle up, there's the news of two men who were killed while traveling in a car piloted by a drunken driver. 28-year-old Stephen Bush was speeding down Rockaway Blvd. early Saturday morning when he lost control of his Cadillac sedan and drove through the front of a carpet store in Rosedale. Bush was uninjured, but two of his passengers--Garfield Nelson and Wayne Burnette--were both killed. A third......

Continue Reading "Drunk Driver Crashes Into Store, Kills Passengers"

May 21, 2008

The drunk driver who fatally struck a 24-year-old woman on East 4th and Bowery--and kept driving--last year has pleaded guilty to vehicular manslaughter. Twenty-one-year-old Tenzing Bhutia, a senior at Baruch, will serve a two-year sentence starting in June for killing Julia Thomson (pictured) with his father's Mercedes last October. Thomson, a Scottish transplant who was living in the East Village, had been showing a friend the town when she was hit around 4 a.m. Witnesses......

Continue Reading "Guilty Plea in 2007 Fatal Manhattan Hit-and-Run"

May 15, 2008

Yesterday, a NJ volunteer firefighter was found guilty of fatally hitting an off-duty police officer. Robert Derian, who had a blood alcohol level of 0.12, had been driving his Jeep on the West Side Highwaywhen he hit 29-year-old Eric Concepcion. Concepcion was on his motorcycle, and prosecutors said that road rage caused Derian to hit Concepcion's bike. Concepcion's body was dragged 3000 feet along the road in August 2006. Derian's lawyer said it was an......

Continue Reading "DWI Driver Convicted in Off-Duty Cop's Highway Death"

January 4, 2008

Eugenio Cidron, the man who killed bicyclist Eric Ng in 2006 after driving drunk down the West Side bike path instead of the West Side Highway following a holiday party at Chelsea Piers, was sentenced yesterday to three to 10 years in prison. Cidron had driven over a plastic pylon to enter the path from Chelsea Piers and had been driving south for a mile before hitting Ng, who was traveling north. Cidron, who pleaded......

Continue Reading "Drunk Driver Who Fatally Hit Bicyclist Sentenced"

November 12, 2007

A 66-year-old man driving a Nissan Maxima was fatally hit by a drunk driver on Woodhaven Boulevard, between 101st Avenue and 97th Avenue in Ozone Park. Twenty-five-year-old Christopher Rivera, driving a Honda Accord, crossed the road's median around 10:45PM and slammed into the Maxima driving in the opposite direction. The Maxima then hit a third car, a BMW. The Maxima's driver was pronounced dead at the scene, his passenger was injured, as well as Rivera......

Continue Reading "Drunk Driver Causes Fatal Crash in Queens"

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