New York, NY - Accident News and Resources including car, bicycle, motorcycle and truck accidents and much more.
New York - The metropolitan area including New York City, the most populous city in the United States
As of 2013, New York City alone had a population of over 8.4 million and the metropolitan area surrounding it includes millions more. According to a New York Department of Motor Vehicles report in 2013, New York City had 70,403 crashes in that year alone. It also boasts one of the largest subway systems in the world and is a major travel destination worldwide. There are many roadways within the New York metropolitan area including:
Links to recent accidents in the New York area
Here is information on the most recent accidents in the New York metropolitan area:
- New York car accidents;
- New York bus accidents;
- New York pedestrian accidents;
- New York motorcycle accidents;
- New York bicycle accidents;
- New York commercial truck accidents;
- New York boat accidents.
If someone you know has been in an accident, here are some of the major hospitals in the New York area
- New York Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell
- Mount Sinai Hospital
- St. Francis Hospital
- Lenox Hill Hospital
- North Shore University Hospital
- Brookhaven Memorial Hospital
- North Shore Cohen Children's Medical Center
Grief support informations for accident victims in the New York area
When a loved one is killed in a motor-vehicle accident, it is often helpful for grieving family and friends to get help from a grief support organization. It can be comforting to talk with others going through a similar situation, and the road to recovering from the loss may go more smoothly. Go here to get information on grief support groups in New York City area or the Long Island area.
New York legal information for accident victims
After someone has been injured or killed in a motor-vehicle crash in New York, many decisions need to be made immediately and questions need to be answered. For example, how much of the medical costs will be covered by the insurance policy? How does PIP insurance help with medical bills immediately? What if the at-fault driver has no insurance?
Where to find legal assistance after a New York injury accident
After a serious crash, it is crucial to get help from a New York injury attorney who understands the local regulations and legal standards, who knows how insurance policies work, and who can handle all aspects of an insurance claim so the injured person can focus on recovery. If someone is injured or killed in a collision, a New York car accident lawyer will launch a claim that will begin the process of financial recovery.
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Accident reports by county
Most recent accident reports
At least three people died early Saturday morning in a two-car wreck in Farmindale.
The driver of a street sweeper on Long Island was killed when the vehicle flipped after getting into an accident with a road paving truck Friday morning, police say.
A woman was hit and killed by a Catholic school bus on the Upper East Side on Thursday, police said. The woman, believed to be in her 40s, was killed at the corner of 93rd Street and Second Avenue at about 3:30 p.m., police said.
9-year-old Brooklyn, N.Y., girl leaving church on Sunday was killed in a three-car crash, The Daily News reports.
Police on Long Island say a motorcyclist was killed and his wife was seriously injured when his speeding motorcycle hit a guardrail.
The accident happened shortly after 1 a.m. Saturday in Holbrook.
A one-car accident in Red Hook Wednesday night has taken the life of a Kingston woman, according to the Dutchess County Sheriff’s Office.
Nine people were taken to the hospital with injuries, many of them serious, after an SUV crash on a highway in the Bronx that may have been speed-related, officials say.
Police on Long Island are investigating a hit and run accident in Mineola this morning. The accident happened near Jericho Turnpike and Congress Avenue around 9:00 on Friday.
Three people were hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries Thursday afternoon after a Chevy pickup truck traveling northbound on I-684 crossed the median just north of exit 6 and struck five vehicles in the southbound lane before rolling ov
A man was injured in a fiery crash of a tractor-trailer truck and a van on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge that snarled traffic on the Staten Island Expressway during the height of rush hour on Tuesday morning.
Suffolk County Police Second Squad detectives are investigating a one-car crash that killed an 83-year-old man in Melville last night.
Suffolk County Police Fifth Squad detectives are investigating a crash that killed a Patchogue man last evening.