A 20-year-old woman, spending the day with her family at a water park, "mistakenly drove" a Chevy Avalanche forward, striking three relatives. Yerardin Gil's action killed her aunt, Rosa Ortiz and also injured other relatives Dolcina Ortiz and Tomas Esquerdo. The incident occurred at Splish Splash in Calverton, Long Island; the three had been sitting on a grass median, having a picnic, when Gil drove over the curb and into them. According to Newsday, police......

Jacob Chubalashvili was arraigned yesterday on charges including second-degree manslaughter for crashing into an Acura, killing its two passengers immediately in Forest Hills on Tuesday morning. The Queens DA's office released some of the 17-year-old unlicensed driver's statements:[On the morning of August 5] Chubalashvili said, “I just took the car, I didn’t have permission to take it. I smoked some marijuana before I took the car... I remember taking the car, it’s a Mercedes and......

It turns out that the driver of a Mercedes Benz had barreled through a red light on the Grand Central Parkway yesterday when it hit the Acura, killing the Acura's two passengers. And further, the driver did not have a license and had been smoking marijuana. Newsday reports that Kim Ki, 55, and Hyek Young Kim, 53, were killed immediately "as the force of the impact split their Acura in half." (The Acura is described......

Nine-year-old Akeem Suluki was thrown across the road when a car hit him around 3:30 p.m. He had been leaving his after school program at PS 262 in Bedford Stuyvesant, and the crossing guard tried to pull him out of the Dodge Charger's way but couldn't save him. Suluki was taken to Kings County Hospital Center, after suffering a collapse lung, bleeding to the brain, and more (news reports said he was in a......

Photograph by Phil Ritz on Flickr Last month, an out-of-control car jumped the curb outside the State Supreme Court and injured a six people, including coffee vendor Jaweed "Joe" Naseri. Naseri was in his coffee cart at the time and said at the time, "All of a sudden there was a very deep impact and I rolled over two or three times in the cart. At one point I said my prayers. I thought......