A car crashed through a chain-link fence, plunged roughly 30 feet
onto subway tracks and burst into flames in Brooklyn early Saturday,
disrupting service on the N line for several hours, authorities said.
The accident occurred just before 5 a.m. at 63rd Street and 15th Avenue
at the New Utrecht Avenue station, where the D and M lines connect with
the N.
The tracks there are below street level but not covered.
The car went over the sidewalk, landing on the Manhattan-bound tracks
and catching fire.
Former New York Yankees player Jim Leyritz is being sued for
wrongful death in connection with a fatal traffic accident
in December.
The Broward County lawsuit, asking for at least $15,000 in
damages, was filed Tuesday by the family of 30-year-old
Fredia Ann Veitch. Leyritz has pleaded not guilty to driving
under the influence manslaughter charges in the Dec. 28 wreck.
Police say Leyritz was drunk when he ran a red light in his
sport utility vehicle and caused the crash. Authorities say
Veitch also had a blood-alcohol level above the legal limit.
A prime suspect in Saturday’s East Side crane collapse — a spectacular
disaster across two Manhattan blocks that has now claimed seven lives
and is expected to cost untold millions — is a $50 piece of nylon
webbing that investigators suspect may have broken while hoisting a
six-ton piece of steel.
A photograph taken at the site shows the yellow nylon sling ragged
at the end like a child’s broken shoelace, indicating, according to
experts, the immense force that may have torn it apart.
The
investigation into the accident continued on Monday as workers
recovered three more bodies from the rubble of a four-story town house
on East 50th Street that was demolished when a section of the toppling
crane slammed into it. That brought the death toll from the collapse to
seven, making it one of the deadliest construction accidents in New
York City in recent memory.
Having each lived through a parent's worst nightmare, Dennis Quaid and
his wife, Kimberly, are speaking out again about the medical errors
that nearly took the lives of their newborn twins – this time for a
national television audience.
"[Mix-ups] happen in
every hospital in every state in this country and … I've come to find
out, there's 100,000 people a year killed … in hospitals by a medical
mistakes," the actor, 53, tells 60 Minutes in a segment scheduled to air Sunday, CBS reports.
"It's bigger than AIDS. It's bigger than breast cancer. It's
bigger than automobile accidents and yet, no one seems to be really
aware of the problem," says Quaid, who also details the ordeal he and
his wife experienced.
To the long list of objects vulnerable to attack by computer hackers, add the human heart.
The threat seems largely theoretical. But a team of computer security
researchers plans to report Wednesday that it had been able to gain
wireless access to a combination heart defibrillator and pacemaker.
They were able to reprogram it to shut down and to deliver jolts of
electricity that would potentially be fatal — if the device had been in
a person. In this case, the researcher were hacking into a device in a
laboratory.
New York City's buildings
commissioner called for laws to require registration of concrete
contractors and hiring of safety managers after a surge in
construction worker deaths and injuries during a record building
boom.
Fatalities on high rises -- projects of 15 stories or more
-- rose to five last year from one in 2006 and injuries
increased 63 percent, to 52, according to the New York City
Buildings Department. More than 60 percent involved materials
falling during concrete pouring.
Two men fell to their deaths in the past three months
during concrete operations. On Jan. 14, Yuriy Vanchitskiy died
when freshly poured concrete on the 42nd floor of the Trump SoHo
hotel and condominium tower in lower Manhattan gave way, city
authorities said.
Joe Mare, a baseball standout at C.W. Post, is in a coma after a near-fatal car accident on Feb. 10, according to his father Tom Mare.
The 21-year-old was hit by a car around 2:30 a.m. while crossing Francis Lewis Boulevard in Queens. He suffered a fractured skull, brain trauma, several broken bones and extensive leg injuries.
Patients treated for heart attack or angina and given the anticlotting
drug Plavix had a sharply increased rate of death or heart attack
within 90 days after being taken off the drug, researchers found.
Doctors from the federal Department of Veterans
Affairs and elsewhere suggested that one possible solution for the
"rebound effect" with Plavix might be to take patients off the drug
more gradually or to add aspirin therapy as it is reduced.
The study, published in this week's Journal of the
American Medical Association, focused on 3,137 patients discharged from
127 Veterans Affairs hospitals from 2003 to 2005. Plavix is generically
known as clopidogrel.
A driver lost control of his Honda Accord early Sunday morning on the
Major Deegan Expressway, crossing the center line and killing a
passenger when the car slammed into a tree, the police said. The
driver, Marcelo Uribe, 21, of Sleepy Hollow, was charged with driving
while intoxicated and vehicular manslaughter, the police said. The
accident occurred near Van Cortlandt Park about 4:20 a.m. A second
passenger was in stable condition at St. Barnabas Hospital on Sunday.
The passenger who was killed was not identified Sunday. Read More About Bronx D.W.I. Charge In Fatal Crash... [Back to Top]
DAN RAIA thinks that the Pelham Gardens section of the northeast
Bronx is sinking, and as proof he points to the hole in the concrete
driveway at his boxy brick house.
Nor was the chasm, 7
feet wide and 4 feet deep, the first sinkhole in that spot. Last April,
shortly after part of Tiemann Avenue was repaved by the city’s
Transportation Department, a hole appeared in the driveway after a
northeaster. Mr. Raia, a 45-year-old facilities engineer who has lived
on Tiemann for seven years, scrambled to fill the hole with topsoil.
After
another storm, the hole reappeared, at which point he filled it with
gravel. Then the rain came again, as did the sinkhole, even larger than
before.
Now Mr. Raia has cordoned off the hole with plastic
trash bins and yellow caution tape while he tries to figure out who or
what is responsible.
“We never had this problem before they
repaved the street,” Mr. Raia said, gazing mournfully at the hole
through his living room window.
Three suspended lawyers charged with bilking
clients out of $65 million in Kentucky's fen-phen case remain behind
bars, but a federal judge is giving them another chance at bail.
U.S. District Judge William O. Bertelsman
heard two hours of closed testimony yesterday on whether William
Gallion, Melbourne Mills Jr. and Shirley Cunningham Jr., who have been
jailed since August, should be released pending their trial on charges
of conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
With a new law that took effect yesterday, New York's oversight of
outpatient facilities - including pain-management practices such as Dr.
Harvey Finkelstein's - will be among the toughest in the nation,
advocates and health officials said.
But some said the law fails to address ways to ensure good infection
control in all outpatient settings, an issue for Long Islanders in
light of the state's recent notification of more than 10,000 of
Finkelstein's patients after the Dix Hills doctor's reuse of syringes
led to a transmission of hepatitis C in 2004.
Experts estimate
that more than half of medical practice, including surgeries and
invasive procedures such as colonoscopies, take place in offices and
clinics. The state has about 2,000 of these facilities, which unlike
hospitals, have not been required to be accredited. Read More About New York outpatient oversight among toughest... [Back to Top]
The alleged mastermind behind a scheme to plunder bodies and
sell their parts for millions plans to plead guilty next week.
In an effort to escape lengthy jail sentences stemming from
cases in Philadelphia and New York, Michael Mastromarino has
agreed to talk to investigators about the companies that
bought the stolen tissue.
That has raised the prospect that Mastromarino, the former
owner of the infamous Biomedical Tissue Services, could
provide damaging testimony against the tissue processors in
a move that could roil the billion-dollar industry.
"Let's just say that he is going to assist them and
give any information he has about the processors and their
role," said Mario Gallucci, Mastromarino's lawyer.
"It appears that the Brooklyn district attorney's
office is interested in the information that he's providing."
A Brooklyn man was arrested in connection with an Oct. 6 crash that
killed one man and injured another near the Belt Parkway, the police
said on Sunday. The suspect, Justin Bonilla, 19, of East 34th Street,
was charged with manslaughter, the police said.
The police said Mr.
Bonilla was driving east on the parkway about 4 a.m. when his car
veered off the road onto a grassy area and struck two pedestrians. Mr.
Bonilla told detectives that his car had been stolen but was charged
after a detective identified him in an image from a nearby surveillance
camera around the time of the crash, the police said. Read More About Brooklyn Man Charged in Hit and Run... [Back to Top]
The $33 million verdict - the largest non-medical-malpractice personal
injury award in Long Island history - came in 13 days before Christmas. But for Jimmy Dunne and his family, the victory will always be bittersweet.
The judge ruled that the trial was only about damages. "The
attorneys for the other side never produced a witness, but argued that
the award should be about 5 million," says Murphy. "We asked for $35
mil, illustrating just how much Jimmy Dunne's life had changed.
On Dec. 12, the jury deliberated for 90 minutes and returned with
.7 million of the $35million Murphy and O'Toole had sought.
TUXEDO, N.Y. (AP) - A 67-year-old man working on a natural gas pipeline was killed when he was thrown from a machine and it rolled over him.
Pat McCaffrey of Lebanon, New Jersey was working on the Millennium Pipeline in Harriman State Park, about 30 miles north of New York City. The accident happened around 9 a.m. Saturday.
A blond beauty from Scotland was killed by a drunken hit-and-run driver while crossing a street in the East Village early yesterday morning, cops said.
Julia Thomson, 24, was with friends about 4:20 a.m. when she got out of a taxi and began crossing the Bowery at E. Fourth St., cops and witnesses said.
New York - A construction accident at the site where New York's World Trade Centre towers once stood injured two firemen on Thursday, five days after another two firefighters were killed in the same building.
NEW YORK: A dispute between groups of teenagers on a New York City subway train spiraled into a spray of bullets Sunday, leaving one young man dead and three others hospitalized, police said.
A single young gunman shot the four — in front of other passengers — between stops on a northbound No. 5 train in the Bronx shortly after 2:30 a.m., police said.
OKLAHOMA CITY – Americans are much more concerned about corporate misdeeds than tort reform, according to a national poll conducted for the American Association for Justice, formerly the Association of Trial Lawyers of America.
Six people killed in a fiery car crash in Virginia on Tuesday are believed to be members of an extended New York City family of Trinidadian immigrants, the police in Virginia said last night.
The police said they had been unable to identify the victims, four males and two females, because of the severity of their burns, and were planning to use dental and medical records.
