New York City Councilman David Weprin has introduced a bill which would ban the sending or reading of text messages while driving within New York City. As the Queens Democrat stated: You’re not looking at the road and you don’t have both hands on the wheel when driving while text…
The Journal Archives of Surgery published a study on March 17th which found that a year after an injury in a car accident, slip and fall or other types of accidents, 63 percent reported that they still had substantial pain related to the injury. The over 3,000 patients studied were…
Florence Cioffi, a woman who survived 9/11 and was just days from her 60th birthday, was killed in a New York City car accident on January 24 when she was run over by a vehicle driven by computer software executive George Anderson just before 11:00 PM on Water Street in…
Global positoning devices (GPS), although a lifesaver to some, have been blamed for numerous New York car accidents over the last few years. Most recently, earlier this month, a driver from California caused a fiery car accident when he turned on to railroad tracks in Bedford Hills and his vehicle…
2007 continued a trend of numerous New York car accidents on suburban New York roadways dominated by aggressive, inattentive drivers causing numerous car accidents and fatalities. According to Captain John Hodges of the Westchester County Police, the main causes of these New York car crashes and auto deaths are: speeding,…
November 2007 has been a treacherous month on the Bronx River Parkway in New York. On November 13, 2007, we did a report “Fatal Accident on the Bronx River Parkway…” describing the New York fatal car crash in which a Yonkers couple, Bernard and Phyllis Cecere, was killed when their…
Britney Spears latest run in with the law in which she went through a red light and made an illegal left turn with her children in the car highlights two significant safety issues, one of which we wrote about in our April 8, 2007 blog. Namely, New York mothers driving…
The fatal car crash on New York’s Bronx River Parkway this past Wednesday has Westchester residents calling for stricter traffic enforcement. An elderly Yonkers couple, Ralph and Phyllis Cecere, were killed in the horrific car accident car crash when a Honda driven by 18 year old Justin Martinez collided with…
According to a study by the Rand Corporation, drivers over the age of 65 are two-thirds less likely to be in a car accident than drivers between the ages of 18-25. Further, the oldest drivers are only 16% more likely to be in an automobile accident than drivers between the…
The fatal auto accident this past July involving a truck driver and a speeding motorist have brought on renewed calls for stronger traffic enforcement on the New York Tappan Zee Bridge. According to the police investigation, the driver of a 1995 Mitsubishi was driving recklessly and struck the rear of…