Seven members of the same family were killed in the fatal collision between a minibus and a train on Thursday evening.
A driver was pinned inside her vehicle after a small box truck rammed into her vehicle this morning. The accident took place on Eastern Parkway and Bedford Avenue at around 10:30am.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — It sounded like two cars collided, when in fact it was a person that was struck and sent flying down Empire this afternoon. The incident took place in front of 675 Empire Boulevard where an elderly Jewish man was crossing, and was struck by a passing SUV.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A Lubavitcher yungerman was struck by a motorcycle Erev Shabbos and suffered very serious injuries. The accident took place at the intersection of Union Street and Schenectady Avenue.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A daredevil motorcyclist speeding and disregarding traffic laws collided with a parked car, then ricochet off a moving car and went flying in the air, landing over 30 feet from his motorcycle.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A teenage cyclist was struck by a car and seriously injured Wednesday evening. The incident took place on Brooklyn Avenue between Eastern Parkway and Union Street, where a young black teen was hit by an SUV and was knocked unconscious.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Two cars collided in an intersection yesterday, Tuesday evening, and injured five. The incident took place at around 7:00pm in the intersection of Eastern Parkway and Franklin Avenue, where a minivan with 4 passengers collided with a sedan, injuring all of the vehicles occupants.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A pedestrian was stuck by a mini-van on Empire Boulevard this afternoon. Bystanders blamed construction work in the area. Hatzalah treated the pedestrian and transported him to Kings County Hospital.
A pedestrian was struck by a car and injured as he was crossing Empire Boulevard in front of the 71st Precinct. The victim was treated at the scene by EMS and was transported to a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — At about 11:45 this morning, Wednesday, a city bus collided with a truck and injured many passengers. The accident occurred on the corner of Nostrand Avenue and Lincoln Place.
A driver crashed her car in to an electricity pole at the intersection of Maple Street and Kingston Avenue Monday evening after suffering a heart attack while at the wheel. The driver, an elderly black woman, was driving down Maple when for no apparent reason crashed directly into the pole and a relatively slow speed.
A car took a dip into a ditch on Kingston Avenue yesterday afternoon. Many gathered to spectate, few actually helped, and all together they managed to get the car out without much damage.
A major tragedy befell the Jewish community in Boro Park, 11-Year-Old Boruch Mordechai Berliner was struck by a bus and pinned underneath at 7:00pm on Thursday. He succumbed to his wounds just before Shabbos at Lutheran Trauma Center.
A MTA bus collided with a traffic signal pole this morning, completely uprooting it and causing significant damage. The incident took place at the intersection of Union Street and Brooklyn Avenue at around 8:45am.
MORRISTOWN, NJ [CHI] — A bus traveling into Crown Heights from Pittsburgh to attend the Lag BaOmer Parade was involved in what is reported to be a serious accident on the Interstate 78 in New Jersey.
A police officer who was responding to an emergency was involved in a single vehicle accident as he was speeding down Brooklyn Avenue. In attempt to avoid collision with a car he swerved, went up on two wheels and flipped on his side.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Just as rain began coming down again this evening, a 13-year-old Bochur, who was crossing at the intersection of Kingston and Empire at around 9:00pm, was struck and lightly hurt by an SUV who tore through a red light, struck the crossing pedestrian, and fled the scene without stopping for even a moment.
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