Crown Heights, Brooklyn — At around 12:30 this afternoon Hatzalah received a call for multiple injured in a construction accident on Crown Street. The incident took place at 579 Crown St between Troy and Albany which is under construction for extensive renovations.
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Crown Heights, Brooklyn — At around 10:15pm last night came the chilling calls for help from a patrolling Shomrim member saying that a pedestrian was struck by a bus and Hatzalah and 911 should be called. The member then began administering first aid to the victim and in attempt to stop the profuse bleeding he took his shirt off and used it.
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Crown Heights, Brooklyn — Today, Thursday at about 4 PM, a mini van attempted to turn onto Kingston Ave from Empire and was hit by a car coming from the opposite direction.
There were some children on the street corner waiting to cross, but BH the car missed the children, and no one was hurt.
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Crown Heights, Brooklyn — At about 3:30 this afternoon, Thursday one of the local school buses fill with children, taking them home was involved in a minor accident on Utica Ave [between President and Union St].
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Crown Heights, Brooklyn — A small jeep speeding down Brooklyn Ave rear ended a parked van between Carroll and Crown. The incident took place yesterday, Sunday at around 7:00pm just as the rain intensified. Bystanders observed a Jeep Liberty speeding, losing control and swerving into a parked van.
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Ft. Lauderdale, FL — A crane collapsed by Galt Ocean Drive in Ft. Lauderdale Saturday morning, crashing onto some power lines and damaging part of a synagogue.
The Chabad Lubavitch of Fort Lauderdale lost power due to the crane tipping over and snapping an electrical line providing power to the temple and other parts of the area.
Crown Heights, Brooklyn – Yesterday, Sunday, a car attempted to pull into a driveway on Empire Blvd between Albany and Troy coming from the opposite side and hit a passing minivan causing it to collide with a parked car.
B”H there were no injuries and there was no one passing on the sidewalk where the parked car was pushed into. Drivers need to take extra care in that area of Empire, it’s the most accident prone intersection in Crown Heights.
Crown Heights, Brooklyn –- Today, about 5:30 PM, a red Chevy Malibu driven by a drunk driver, slammed into the rear of a double parked Mercedes. The incident took place on Lefferts Ave between Brooklyn and Kingston in the middle of the block.
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Crown Heights, Brooklyn – Erev Shabbos at around 2:45 in the afternoon a woman opened her car door and was struck by a passing transport van on Albany Ave between Eastern Parkway and Union Street.
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Crown Heights, Brooklyn – An attempt to ‘beat’ the light ends in a dangerous crash in the intersection of Montgomery and Brooklyn. At around 8:45pm a black Lincoln Aviator traveling down Montgomery St attempted to beat the light as it was turning red and was struck by a silver Minivan.
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Today, Friday at about 2 in the afternoon, a black Scion crashed into a white Ford on the corner of Montgomery St and Brooklyn ave. The driver of the white Ford Escort, an older woman from the community, was driving down Montgomery St, coming from New York Ave and crossing over the intersection with Brooklyn Ave without stopping for the red light, as a witness observed.
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Crown Heights, Brooklyn –- Yesterday, Thursday at around 4:10 in the afternoon, a woman driving was rear ended by another vehicle. The incident took place on Lefferts Ave between New York and Brooklyn in front of Bais Rivkah, the woman slowed her minivan and was rear ended by another minivan.
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Crown Heights, Brooklyn –- A young teen riding his bike was struck by a car. The incident took place in the intersection of Carroll St and Brooklyn Ave at around 7:50pm in the evening. What appeared to have taken place was that the cyclist who was waiting for the light slightly in the street was struck by an oncoming car.
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Crown Heights, Brooklyn -– Earlier today at around 12:00pm a minor collision took place on Brooklyn Ave between Union and President involving a Police car and an SUV, the police car was not responding to an emergency.
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Crown Heights, Brooklyn –- The intersection Empire Boulevard and Troy Avenue in Crown Heights has seen a lot of accidents in the last two years. We have recorded over 15 accidents, all of which had injured passengers and/or pedestrians (L”A) and significant damage sustained to the vehicles involved.
Today another incident took place; an accident between a Minivan which attempted to make a left turn from Empire onto Troy and was struck by an ambulette van who was going straight on Empire. The minivan had a driver and four passengers onboard and was struck in the passenger side door and sliding door. The impact caused the Minivan to come to rest on the sidewalk. BH there were no pedestrians hit.
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Brooklyn, NY — At about 11pm Monday night a Israeli Bochur reversing into a driveway was hit by an oncoming car. The Israeli Bochur was driving a red mini van reversing into the driveway on Montgomery between Kingston and Albany aves, when the silver compact driven by a Black male hit him and went under his rear bumper, causing some significant damage to the compact.
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Earlier today at around 11:45am there was an accident involving the Rebbes car. The incident took place in the intersection of Troy and Carroll, the Cadillac was driving up Troy Ave when a dark gray 15 passenger van, driven by another Yid, ran a red light and was hit by the Cadillac.
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