When New York drivers get behind the wheel, they can be dedicated to keeping their eyes on the road, but an accident can still strike. When the cause of an accident is a poorly maintained truck, the results can be particularly devastating due to the size, weight and...
Month: June 2018
Camp bungalow explodes, injuring 14
Fourteen people were injured when a camp bungalow exploded in New York on June 8. Three of the individuals were critically injured, and one required being airlifted to a hospital. The victims were returning to a bungalow at a camp for teenage boys when a sudden...
How safe are you on a NYC bus?
If you are a typical New Yorker, taking the bus is an almost daily occurrence for you. On any given weekday, 2.38 million people ride a city bus, 1,997,302 of them on one of the Metropolitan Transit Authority’s five local bus routes in Brooklyn, the Bronx,...
3 dead, 7 injured in single-vehicle accident
On June 8, a New York teenager who was involved in a car accident that resulted in three fatalities and seven injuries was taken into custody and charged with several offenses, including three counts of second-degree manslaughter. The teen, age 15, was set to go to...
Failure to comply with OSHA standards could spell disaster
Everywhere you turn in New York City, construction jobs are in progress, and this means that employers must meet OSHA standards. Unfortunately, some employers overlook or simply ignore safety and health standards, which can result in serious injury or death for...
The most frequent truck accident injuries
Accidents between commercial trucks and passenger vehicles usually end badly for the occupants of the latter; in fact, they make up 97 percent of the fatalities in such accidents. When they survive, though, they can still be left with long-term physical and mental...