The Weekly Carnage
Posted By Summer Greenstein On March 2, 2012 @ 2:34 pm In Streetsblog,The Weekly Carnage | 1 Comment
The Weekly Carnage is a Friday round-up of motor vehicle violence across the five boroughs and beyond. For more on the origins and purpose of this column, please read About the Weekly Carnage [1].
[2]An SUV driver crashed through a storefront in St. Albans. Six people, including an elderly woman, were injured. Photo: DNA [3]
Fatal Crashes (4 killed this week, 31 this year, 4 drivers charged*)
- Fresh Meadows: 40-Year-Old Pedestrian Struck By Driver on Union Turnpike; No Charges (DNA [4])
- UWS: 26-Year-Old Passenger Killed After Driver Crashes Into Concrete Median on Henry Hudson Pkwy (DNA [5])
- Norwood: Kwame Awtwi, 51, Crashes Car Into Pole (DNA [6], Post Blotter [7])
- East NY: 66-Year-Old Passenger Killed, One Critical After Two-Car Collision; “No Criminality” (DNA [8], Post [9])
Injuries, Arrests and Property Damage
- St. Albans: Driver Crashes Through Storefront, Injuring Self and Five Others (Times-Ledger [10])
- East Williamsburg: Pedestrian Struck at Grand and Vandervoort (@NYScanner [11])
- South Richmond Hill: Pedestrian Struck By MTA Bus Driver (DNA [12])
- Crown Heights: Five Injured in Three-Car Crash on Eastern Parkway (DNA [13])
- South Jamaica: Pedestrian Reportedly Hit By Tanker Truck Driver on Van Wyck Expressway (Times-Ledger [14])
- Chelsea: Three Injured After Driver Crashes Minivan Into Building (DNA [15])
- Brownsville: Hit-and-Run Driver Clips Pedestrian in the Leg (Post Blotter [16])
- Great Kills: Man’s Leg, Pelvis Broken in Head-On Collision With Drunk Driver (Post Blotter [7])
- East NY: Drunk Cop Crashes Patrol Car Into Pole, Refuses Breathlyzer Test; Two Supervisors Disciplined (DNA [17], News [18])
- Parkchester: Livery Cab Driver Crashes Through Gate Into House; “No Criminality” (CBSNY [19])
- Corona: Driver Drags Wife Clinging to SUV After Argument (Post Blotter [7])
- Travis: Teen Arrested for Driving With Almost Twice the Legal Blood-Alcohol Level (Post Blotter [20])
[21]A 66-year-old woman was killed in East New York when a driver hit the car she was riding in. Her husband, who was driving, was critically injured. Photo:Post [9]
In the Region, Out of Town
- Congers, NY: Teen Driver Fatally Strikes 74-Year-Old Pedestrian Crossing the Street (LoHud [22])
- Bernards Township, NJ: Teen Passenger Killed After Speeding Driver Crashes Into Trees (Jersey-Journal [23])
- Southeast, NY: Drunk Driver Pulled from Flaming Wreckage After Driving Off Road, Flipping Car (LoHud [24])
- Bowling Green, OH: Wrong-Way Driver Kills Self, Three College Students; Two Others Injured (AP [25])
Following Up
- Cabbie Struck By Drunk SUV Driver Has Leg Amputation, Remains in Coma (News [26])
- NJ Man Charged With Murder for Running Over Girlfriend Held on $3 Million Bail (Post [27])
- Ex-Assistant Bronx DA Pleads Guilty to Drunk Driving, Avoids Jail Time (News [28])
- Driver in 2010 Upstate Megabus Crash That Killed Four Acquitted of Murder (News [29])
* Based on latest available reports
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[1] About the Weekly Carnage: http://www.streetsblog.org/about-the-weekly-carnage/
[2] Image: http://www.streetsblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/QueensSUV.jpg
[3] DNA: http://www.dnainfo.com/20120301/queens-village-st-albans/suv-crashes-into-queens-stores-injuring-three
[4] DNA: http://www.dnainfo.com/20120301/fresh-meadows-jamaica-estates/man-struck-killed-by-car-on-union-turnpike-fresh-meadows
[5] DNA: http://www.dnainfo.com/20120301/upper-west-side/man-killed-henry-hudson-parkway-car-crash
[6] DNA: http://www.dnainfo.com/20120229/norwood-bedford-park/man-killed-bronx-car-crash
[7] Post Blotter: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/nypd_blotter/nypd_daily_blotter_soID5NBDA5W3MYMBwFjmQK
[8] DNA: http://www.dnainfo.com/20120225/east-new-york-brownsville/fatal-car-crash-east-new-york-leaves-one-dead-one-critical
[9] Post: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/woman_dead_husband_hurt_in_klyn_Jr21Z5oJdHoHddRouHRVwN
[10] Times-Ledger: http://www.timesledger.com/stories/2012/9/stalbanscrash_web_2012_03_01_q.html
[11] @NYScanner: https://twitter.com/#!/NYScanner/status/175382318540783618
[12] DNA: http://www.dnainfo.com/20120229/howard-beach-richmond-hill/woman-struck-by-city-bus-south-richmond-hill
[13] DNA: http://www.dnainfo.com/20120228/prospect-heights-bed-stuy-crown-heights/five-hurt-crown-heights-car-crash
[14] Times-Ledger: http://www.timesledger.com/stories/2012/8/vanwyckcrash_se_2012_02_23_q.html
[15] DNA: http://www.dnainfo.com/20120228/chelsea-hells-kitchen/three-hurt-chelsea-accident
[16] Post Blotter: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/nypd_blotter/nypd_daily_blotter_1NBEtgfpnlLwFpN0VErfGL
[17] DNA: http://www.dnainfo.com/20120228/east-new-york-brownsville/drunk-cop-crashes-cruiser-after-fundraiser-for-slain-officer
[18] News: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/2-nypd-supervisors-disciplined-brooklyn-arrested-druken-driving-article-1.1031044
[19] CBSNY: http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/02/27/out-of-control-livery-cab-crashes-into-bronx-home/
[20] Post Blotter: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/nypd_blotter/nypd_daily_blotter_1kLGHrI1c2as7JOTcZEnuN
[21] Image: http://www.streetsblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/ENewYorkcrash.jpg
[22] LoHud: http://www.lohud.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2012302290070
[23] Jersey-Journal: http://www.nj.com/jjournal-news/index.ssf/2012/02/jersey_city_woman_18_killed_in.html
[24] LoHud: http://www.lohud.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2012302280035
[25] AP: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20120302/us-wrong-way-driver-four-killed/
[26] News: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/cabbie-leg-amputated-struck-drunk-driver-midtown-remains-coma-article-1.1031594
[27] Post: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/queens/baby_faced_killer_t7XKRUa09OxbrjPBlgtjaM
[28] News: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ex-bronx-prosecutor-jennifer-troiano-pleads-guilty-drunk-driving-case-article-1.1031897
[29] News: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/driver-acquitted-upstate-megabus-crash-killed-4-passengers-article-1.1029901
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