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A 35-year-old man died on Monday after he was involved in a crash while trying to pull onto the shoulder of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. Jessie McCalip, a resident of St. George, was driving his 2020 Hyundai Elantra when he was rear-ended by a Dodge Charger around 8:45 p.m.  McCalip, a husband and father of two,

A 13-year-old boy is dead and his 15-year-old friend was arrested on Saturday after the two went joyriding in a stolen SUV and smashed into a row of parked cars in Harlem around 6 p.m. Police said Dejuan Wynn, a 13-year-old from the Bronx, was driving a Nissan Armada along West 116th Street when police

Twenty-six-year-old Nicole Pollock pleaded not guilty to 13 charges when she was arraigned on Wednesday in Nassau County Court in Mineola. Prosecutors say she was drunk and speeding when she crashed into the rear of a car on Meadowbrook Parkway last month, sending a woman’s vehicle into a tree, killing her and injuring her eight-year-old

A car crash killed two people and hurt three others on Friday night in the Town of Tonawanda. Police say the six-vehicle crash took place on Sheridan Drive and Military Road around 10:50 p.m. Tyler Lichtenberger and his girlfriend Gianna Ameno, both 21-year-old residents of North Tonawanda, died at the scene. They were traveling in

A woman stole two Mercedes Benz vehicles and a Toyota Camry last Friday, then caused a number of high-speed crashes in New York City’s East Side. Police say she eventually totaled the Camry outside City Hall. One police source said it was like a game of Grand Theft Auto. However, the woman didn’t display a

Three people were killed, and another individual was critically injured in a wrong-way crash that took place in Queens early on Saturday. Authorities said the collision between two cars occurred around 5:30 a.m. in the westbound lane of Grand Central Parkway near the Cross Island Parkway exit. Police believe one of the two vehicles may

Two women were killed early on Thursday morning in separate crashes in Brooklyn. One was struck by a private sanitation truck while the other was killed by an MTA bus. The truck driver did not stop at the scene. Police closed off the intersection at Bay Parkway and 86th Street just after 4 a.m. as

An 81-year-old woman was badly injured when she was hit by an SUV while crossing the street in Brooklyn on Monday. Police have not released the woman’s name, but she lives on East 95th Street. Her neighbors said she had walked up the block delivering holiday greetings prior to the crash. Officers said the woman

Two men were killed hours apart while crossing the street in Queens, New York. Police said on Monday one crash involved a driver who was allegedly drunk. The first accident occurred around 3:15 p.m. on December 11. Sixty-three-year-old Kwok Cheung was on a crosswalk in Gates Avenue near Onderdonk Avenue when 21-year-old Raymond Mersier allegedly

The two drivers who were found responsible for a Long Island crash that killed a newly engaged couple in 2018 were sentenced on Tuesday afternoon. However, the families of the victims are not satisfied with the ruling. They believe the drivers should have received the maximum sentences for their roles in the deaths of Yisroel

A young, off-duty NYPD officer was killed early Saturday in a horrifying one-car crash along FDR Drive. He dreamed of one day becoming a detective. Brooklyn-born cop Garman Chen was traveling “at a high rate of speed” north on the highway near East 23rd Street at about 2:30 a.m. when he lost control of his

Buffalo, N.Y.  – Parents in New York now need rear-facing car seats for their children if they’re under the age of two or under a certain weight and height. The new car seat regulations came into effect last Friday. Previously, children were only required to sit in rear-facing seats until they were 12 months old.