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Mourners in the hundreds showed up to to pay their respects to the victims of the deadly crash on the Bronx River Parkway.

Tears flow at funeral Mass for 7 crash victims.

After 50 stitches, headaches and hours with a plastic surgeon, a young female passenger of a New York Taxi is by now probably convinced that riding in a taxi without a seat belt is NOT a good idea. People in general who get into a yellow cab don’t bother to fasten their seat belt.

For one New York cab ride  passenger  a false sense of  security causes her to almost lose her life.  She sat back, did not “buckle-up”, and enjoyed the ride. Or did she?

Months back, that relaxed New York mind-set nearly cost this young passanger her life at the intersection of NYC’s 59th St. and Park Ave. The taxi driver according to the passenger had ran a red light. He ended-up crashing into another cab making a left turn.

The young female passanger was thrust forward on impact and smashed into the taxi’s hard plastic partition. This resulted in a a broken nose, deep lacerations to her face and a cut eyelid. Her face appeared completely busted. Witnesses at the scene indicates that the victim in this accident look as if her face had been crushed.

She was rushed to New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center, where doctors had to stitch up her face. The other passenger riding along, was also not wearing a seat-belt, did not do come out of this accident without a scratch either. He had to spend 3 nights in intensive care with bleeding to his brain and and a banged up face from hitting the partition.

"Buckle-up when getting into a NYC Cab"

The doctor who repaired the victims facial damage, said that it is unfortunately common among the taxi riding public who don’t wear seat belts and don’t realize the danger of the partition. Although improving, a permanent scar will be a daily reminder of that catastrophic cab ride.

When reading this story hearing the term “buckle up” when riding a taxi cab or any vehicle, doesnt sound like such a bad idea.

Taxis in New York City transport 240 million people a year, making up 25% of all the transport in the city. Injuries in taxi crashes, including those involving yellow cabs, legal livery cars and illegal gypsy cabs, with such high numbers are inevitable. New YorkCity Street are congested and dangerous for the driver and his or her passanger!

New York Personal Injury Attorneys, Ajlouny Injury Law recommends that if you have been a victim of a taxi cab accident, bicycle accident, car accident or a pedestrian hit be a vehicle, you should take a few appropriate steps, while at the accident scene:

• Gather information that will be useful for fling a personal injury claim: license number, and T&LC driver number of the taxi driver
• Record the license plate and medallion number of the taxi (often times, this may be on the police report)
• Get the contact information of any witness of the accident.
• Find out the name of the cab company from which the driver rents his or her cab
• Any pictures of the accident scene will be very useful

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The New York City Council will hold a hearing Wednesday on the NYPD’s treatment of accident investigations, with a focus on bicyclists and pedestrians killed by motorists.

In 2011, 21 cyclists were killed in traffic accidents in New York City — nine more than in 2009. Just Monday morning, a Staten Island cyclist was killed by a driverwho fled the scene of the accident. And over the past year, bicycle advocates and the families of killed cyclists have repeatedly accused the police of failing to properly handle these investigations, obstructing the release of information about the accidents and failing to prosecute reckless drivers.

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In New York City, approximately 25 fatal bicycle accidents occur each year. An injured bicyclist will need to find an experienced bicycle injury attorney like Paul Ajlouny & Associates to handle personal injury accident litigation in New York. Based on NYC Department of Transportation data, Transportation Alternatives estimates that there are approximately 105,000 bicyclists on city streets every day.

Approximately 6000 are thought to be bicycle messengers and 10,000 food delivery bicyclists.

If you or a loved one have been injured in a bicycle accident, traffic collision involving another vehicle, call Paul Ajlouny & Associates in New York for a free consultation (800) 535-5029 or email our attorneys at: info@nylawyercaraccident.com

Smoking pot within three hours of driving doubles your chance of a major crash, Canadian researchers have found.

Their study, published Thursday in the British Medical Journal, the first to tackle the link between crashes and cannabis use, examined data from more than 49,411 vehicular crash victims and excluded any incidents involving alcohol.

“The level of impairment might not be as severe as alcohol intoxication, but it’s there and it does require a public health response,” expert Wayne Hall told ABC Science.

The researchers said more information is needed to determine the level of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)- the active compound in marijuana – that causes impairment in driving competence.

But there is a positive link between THC levels and crash risk, the data show.

Despite the clear danger of driving high, law enforcement agencies have very few tools to address the problem, the expert said, despite the fact that that marijuana is the second-most sited substance in motor vehicle incidents.

Although it is easy to measure blood alcohol levels using a breath test, it is much harder to determine concentrations of THC in the saliva and gauge driver impairment on the spot, Hall added.

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Richard Threlkeld, a far-ranging and award-winning correspondent who worked for both CBS and ABC News during a long career, has been killed in a car crash on New York’s Long Island.

The 74-year-old Threlkeld died Friday morning in Amagansett, N.Y., when his car collided with a propane tanker.

He was pronounced dead at Southampton Hospital, according to the East Hampton, N.Y., Police Department. He lived in nearby East Hampton.

Newsman Richard Threlkeld Dies in Car Accident – ABC News.

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December 27, 2011
NEW YORK (JTA) – Evelyn Handler, who served from 1983 to 1991 as the fifth president of Brandeis University, was killed last Friday after being struck by a car.

Handler, 78, was crossing a street in Bedford, N.H., to meet her husband, Eugene, when she was hit. She was taken to Catholic Medical Center in Manchester, N.H. where she was later pronounced dead.

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A 41-year-old executive, was stepping into the elevator of an 85-year-old NYC Midtown office building around 10 a.m. Wednesday, just as she had every workday for the past four years.  Within an instant of the women placing one foot inside, the elevator suddenly lurched up, its door still open, dragging her until she was pinned between the elevator and the wall, between the first and second floors.

Passengers in the elevator car watched in horror, while trapped in the elevator before rescuers freed them.

With close to  60,000 elevators in New York City, 53 accidents occurred last year. Three of these accidents turned fatal. NYC records from the Department of Buildings show 14 open violations involving the building’s elevators, two just this last year.

Spokesman for the New York Department of Buildings has already issued a statement trying to defend these clear building violations as in no way having anything to do with this horrific elevator accident that has taken an innocent life.

“This particular elevator was last inspected in June 2011, and no safety issues were found at that time, and no conditions were found that would be related to this accident,” the spokesman, Tony Sclafani, said.

All we can say Mr. Sclanfi and the New York Department of Building is “Lawyer Up!”

Tell us what you think New York!

Why the uproar? The catalyst for this decision was a horrific crash in August 2010 that killed two people, including a young driver who sent 11 texts in 11 minutes — right up until crashing into a school bus.

Please, NTSB, Don’t Ban Cellphone Calls From Cars.

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Insurance and safety advocates said Tuesday that nationwide restrictions on teenage driver’s licenses could save 2,000 lives and billions of dollars each year.

In a report released Tuesday, the National Safety Council, a congressionally chartered independent research agency, asked what would happen if a variety of laws known generally as “graduated driver licensing,” or GDL, were fully adopted in all 50 states.

Besides saving about 2,000 lives, universal adoption would also save more than $13 billion a year, said the report, which was funded by the Allstate Foundation, charitable and research group supported by insurance giant Allstate Corp.

GDL laws include more than just legislating that teenagers can’t get driver’s licenses until they’re 18. They also encompass bans on texting and other cellphone use while driving, restrictions on nighttime driving by 16- and 17-year-olds and limits on the number of passengers in a car driven by a teen. They’re currently a patchwork, with some states’ having adopted most restrictions and others’ having adopted as few as one, said John Ulczycki, the safety council’s group vice president for research.

Projections on death were derived from baseline data published in a 2007 report (.pdf) examining GDL laws by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, and “what we know from (that) study is that when a state passes a GDL with one component, it gets a 4 percent reduction in deaths,” Ulczycki told msnbc.com.

More on graduated driver licensing:

• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has compiled all 50 state GDL laws
• The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety maintains a list of frequently asked questions about GDL laws
• Full National Safety Council report (.pdf)

Ulczycki acknowledged that the 2007 AAA report used data that went back as far as 1994, but he said that because the safety council was looking simply at lives saved year over year, “the total number of lives saved each year” was statistically sound.

For the cost savings, the safety council used its own annual data on crashes involving teenage drivers, compiling reports on medical expenses, wage and insurance losses, police and ambulance costs, vehicle damage and costs to employers for lost productivity. The report’s projections were compared to costs from 2009, when the safety council calculated that teen crashes cost the U.S. $38.3 billion annually.

Study: Tougher teen driving laws would save lives, money.