Car Accidents

According to data provided by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 360 New York residents lost their lives in 2012 in traffic accidents involving excessive speed. The agency says that speeding drivers are involved in about 30 percent of all of the fatal...

On April 18, the New York Police Department announced the arrest of a 24-year-old motorcyclist suspected of causing a fatal accident that resulted in the death of a 45-year-old disc jockey and producer from West New York, New Jersey. The police made the arrest after...

Authorities said a fatal April 8 car crash in New York may have been caused by a man under the influence of drugs. The accident occurred at approximately 10:40 a.m. in Camillus. According to police, a 22-year-old man was traveling south on Kasson Road in a 2008 BMW X3...

During the early morning hours of March 13 in Smithtown, a 36-year-old woman from Kings Park was allegedly driving drunk while heading north on Route 25A. Shortly after 12 a.m., the Long Island woman apparently crossed over the center divider and into the southbound...

Many New York residents are troubled when they learn about the 30 deaths that occur daily due to impaired driving. Car accidents due to drunk driving run up more than $59 billion in costs each year. Accidents involving a drunk driver account for almost a third of...

According to Suffolk County Police, a 35-year-old man was fatally wounded after being ejected from his vehicle due to the force of impact in a collision. The incident occurred on Jan. 18 around 1:20 a.m. in Brookhaven when the man lost control of his eastbound SUV and...

Officers with the New York State Police at Wurtsboro reported that a wrong-way driver died in a crash on Dec. 28. Reportedly, the accident occurred in the westbound lanes of State Route 17 in the town of Mamakating. Officers apparently received more than one call from...

According to the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office, a suspected DWI head-on collision claimed the life of a man on Dec. 6. The accident allegedly occurred on Route 25.According to reports, the 71-year-old man was driving east in his 2008 Chevy truck on the...

Two men suffered major injuries in a car accident in New York on Nov. 18. The two-vehicle crash occurred just after 5:20 p.m. on State Route 66 in Chatham.Police said that a 54-year-old man was traveling in the southbound lane of S.R. 66 just north of Boice Road when...

A New York accident turned fatal for one 26-year-old Lindenhurst driver. The man was killed in a two-vehicle collision when his 2013 Honda Civic struck a 2013 Ford Fusion head on. According to a statement from police, the Civic entered her lane at about 7 p.m.,...