CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Two cars ‘drag racing’ at high speeds up Troy Avenue ended in disaster with two damaged parked cars and itself on its roof. The incident took place on Troy between Eastern Parkway and Lincoln Place at around 12:30am.
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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — An illegal U-turn appears to be the cause of a 5 car destruction derby on a very wet Eastern Parkway. At around 6:00pm today eye witnesses said a black Ford Crown Victoria attempted to make a u-turn or simply lost control on Eastern Parkway between Kingston and Albany, and went plowing into 3 cars on the opposite side of the parkway, and then was rammed by an oncoming gray Dodge Magnum.
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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] – An accident between a minivan driven by a Bochur and a school bus from a local public school B”H ended with no injuries, the incident took place at around 4:00pm today, Monday, on President Street between Albany and Kingston.
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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — An accident while building a Sukkah landed one person in the hospital in serious condition. Hatzalah was called to a home in Crown Heights where a group of men were building a large Sukkah and one of the cross beams suddenly fell and struck a Bochur in his head causing severe injuries.
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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A Jewish woman was injured after being struck by a car on Empire Boulevard in front of Empire Kosher. The incident took place at around 7:30pm, the woman was apparently crossing in the middle of the street and did not notice oncoming traffic.
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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Three accidents in one day is not unfamiliar in Crown Heights, but it hasn’t happened in a few years, until today. Starting with a bad smashup on Lefferts and New York in the morning, then a moderate one Albany and East New York and sealed with a minor one on Empire and Brooklyn.
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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A late night joy ride ended with a collision with a parked car. The incident took place at around 4:00am when the Jewish teen attempted to make a left from Montgomery Street onto Kingston Avenue but failed to recover from the turn and slammed into a parked car, causing significant damage and pushing it up onto the sidewalk.
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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — This afternoon, Thursday, just after dropping its last passenger off, a school bus was rear ended with great force while its red lights were still flashing. The incident took place on Montgomery Street between Brooklyn and New York Avenue at around 4:00pm.
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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A ten-year-old girl was struck and seriously injured earlier today, Wednesday, when she darted out from in between two cars. The incident took place at around 3:30pm on East New York Avenue between Brooklyn and Kingston Avenue.
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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn, [CHI] — Motzoi Shabbos, at about 1:00am, while everybody was on their way to Shul for Slichos, a couple of Bochurim driving Cadillac on Montgomery Street was struck by a Police car as they crossed the intersection with Brooklyn Avenue.
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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A bad crash left a car on a sidewalk with its driver injured. The incident happened in the intersection of Crown and Schenectady at around 1:00am last night, it appeared that one car struck the other and sent it out of control and onto the sidewalk.
Shomrim members who were in the vicinity heard the sound of the crash nearly two blocks away, and ran over to the scene, arriving a mere seconds after the crash where they discovered that the driver of the car on the sidewalk, a red Honda, was being driven by an off duty NYPD officer who was on her way home for her shift.
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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Two SUV’s collided early this morning and injuring both drivers. The accident happened in the intersection of Nostrand Avenue and Sterling Street at around 4:30am.
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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A car pulling out of a parking spot was hit by a ‘access-a-ride’ bus and just a few blocks away an SUV making a u-turn was struck by an oncoming car, spilling gasoline all over the roadway forcing its closure for nearly an hour.
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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A Jewish woman lost control of her car and went plowing into 4 parked cars on East New York Avenue. The incident took place at around 8:00pm, between Troy and Schenectady Ave.
The driver said that she attempted to press the brakes which failed and the car began to accelerate sending her smashing first into a mini school bus, where she left her fender and part of her passenger door, then into a Crown Victoria, and a Astro van which was pushed into another sedan, there it finally came to rest with the engine finally dying.
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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Today, Tuesday at about 8:30am, a cyclist was stuck and injured on Empire Boulevard between Brooklyn and Kingston, the incident took place as the cyclist passed a truck who suddenly opened his door and in attempt to swerve and avoid it he went into the path of a minivan and was struck.
A Shomrim member happened to be there right as it happened and called 911, in the meantime he sprung into action and stabilized the patient all the while talking to him and making sure he doesn’t loose consciousness.
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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] – After patrolling the streets of Crown Heights on Motzai Shabbos Shomrim members prepared to call it a night at around 5:30am when 2 members in one car heard the sound of two car colliding. A quick investigation revealed an accident in the intersection of Empire and Troy.
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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — In the last month alone we have reported 3 accidents which had taken place in the intersection of Crown Street and Kingston Avenue, but when ‘accident hotspot’ is mentioned most immediately think about Empire and Troy. Though it feels like it’s changing.
This morning at around 7:00am two cars collided in the same fashion as the last 3 accidents, where one car took a red and they slammed into each other in the middle of the intersection. A minivan driven by a Jewish driver collided with a sedan driven which was operated as an illegal ‘dolla cab’.
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