Is Our Regular Accident Hotspot Contagious?

Just one night after one end of the street was blocked with emergency vehicles for repair of a gas leak, the other end of Lefferts Avenue became the scene of a nighttime emergency—this time after a car smashed into another vehicle and a light pole.

According to auxiliary police at the scene, two cars were involved in the collision at the intersection of Lefferts and Albany Avenues sometime before 10:00 p.m. Ironically, the accident was caused by one of the cars attempting to clear the way for an unrelated emergency vehicle that was approaching at the time. The car in question apparently tried to make room by entering the intersection against the light, only to collide with the second vehicle.

Several injuries were sustained and the parties taken to a nearby hospital for treatment.

Another Accident on Empire And Troy!

Yesterday [Thursday] on the corner of Empire Blvd. and Troy Ave. there was yet another accident involving 2 cars, one driven by a Bochur from Crown Heights, the other by a non-Jewish woman. The Bochur was making a left turn onto Troy when the other driver hit him as she was going straight down Troy.

B”H there was no serious injuries reported, the woman though had been taken by a FDNY ambulance to KCH for observation.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

Fatal Accident During Storm Preparations

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A federal parks department employee was struck and killed in a freak accident when a payloader backed over him during storm preparations in the South Beach section of Staten Island this morning. 59-year-old Joseph Sordi, a National Park Service employee assigned to the Gateway National Recreation Area, was hit while waiting to fill his truck with salt at a Sanitation Department salt pile at 281 Father Capodanno Boulevard.

Sordi was standing beside his pickup-truck spreader when a payloader, which was loading road salt, backed over him just after 1 a.m.

Hit & Run In Front Of 770

Today [Monday] at around 9:30pm a young man was struck by a car when he was crossing the Eastern Pkwy. and Kingston Ave. intersection right in front of 770 on the main road. The victim didn’t seem to be badly injured, but as a precaution Hatzalah put him on a backboard and took him to KCH [Kings County Hospital] in Crown Heights, for further diagnosis and observation.

The driver of the vehicle fled the scene after striking the pedestrian, the Police opened up in investigation.

Another Accident on Empire and New York

Today [Monday] at around 4:15pm there was an accident right in front of the police station, though not as serious as the one you read about yesterday on this site, there were still injuries.

Apparently one car coming up New York Ave. collided with another car that was headed down Empire Blvd. we don’t know who ran the red. A passerby that had witnessed the accident didn’t hesitate when he saw what happened and immediately called Hatzalah which responded instantly and treated 3 patients, all of which weren’t Jewish.

None of the vehicles were owned or operated by Yidden.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

Serious Accident sunday afternoon

At around noon today [Sunday], a Jeep Grand Cherokee was allegedly hit by another vehicle whilst making a turn into New York Avenue from Empire Boulevard.

The accident caused the Jeep Grand Cherokee to spin around and flip over, luckily nobody was badly hurt.

There were no jews involved in the accident.

More pictures (of parts of the car you don’t usually see) in the Extended Article!

Two kids hit on the way home from minyan

Two kids on the way home from Oholei Torah where they daavened maariv on Friday night, were hit by a car as they were crossing Eastern Parkway at the Brooklyn Avenue intersection. Both suffered minor injuries, (BH there were no broken bones, just bruises and soreness), they were taken to King County Medical Center by Hatzalah.

Apparently they were crossing the street to the 770 side of the Parkway, as the car [a black Acura] was turning onto Eastern Parkway from Brooklyn Avenue while the driver was allegedly on his cell phone, and hit the boys.

They were both released from the hospital Friday midnight.

5 Cars Involved in a massive accident

Last night at approximately 5:30pm a very loud crashing sound followed by 3 more rocked the Empire Blvd. & Troy Ave. intersection. It was a collision between 2 moving vehicles one of which turned onto its side and smashed into 3 other parked cars.

Apparently one car traveling on Empire was hit by a car that ran a red light coming up Troy lifting it up onto 2 wheels and sliding against the cars parked closest to the intersection then fell completely onto its side, and came to rest on top of another parked car.

All drivers involved in the incident were taken away from the scene by ambulance with varying injuries. No Yidden were involved and there was no damage to Yiddishe property.

Just to note that this is the 4th serious accident with injuries in this intersection that we have reported on in the past. Accident 1 Accident 2 Accident 3.

5 Car Collision on Empire and Troy

3:00pm on the corner of Empire Blvd. and Troy Ave. a massive crash was heard, there was a collision involving 5 cars, 3 of which were operated by Jews.

Apparently 2 cars coming up Troy Ave. somehow made it into a van and parked car. The van being operated by a Jew with a passenger, both were taken to KCH [Kings County Hospital] by Hatzalah, and the car that hit the van was operated by a black man who was evacuated to KCH by FDNY and the third car which was also operated by a Jew that had hit the parked car was taken to KCH as well. The extents of the injuries are unknown at this time. A fourth car which had not sustained much damaged was dismissed by police.

31 more pictures in the “Extended Article”