A head on collision left a senior citizen and resident of East 28th Street injured around 10:00 a.m.
According to reader Ariela B., the driver was making a left turn from Avenue V onto Brown Street when a van from the Crown Nursing and Rehabilitation Center came “barreling down” Avenue V toward Nostrand Avenue and struck him almost head on. The impact sent the car spinning, and it then slammed into the corner pole of a fence on the block. Both vehicle’s fronts were “shredded” with car parts strewn everywhere.
“I heard the crash from my bathroom,” said Ariela B. “It sounded like a gunshot, then a huge crumple, then beep beep beep beep beep beep.”
Both drivers appeared to escape serious injuries. The van driver seemed totally unscathed, but the senior citizen had been “banged up,” looking bloody and his elbow was bandaged up at the scene. The reader noted he was conscious and moving without much problem.
One ambulance, one police car, and an FDNY van were on the scene within about 10 minutes.
View more photos of the accident from Ariela B.
We received these photos and report from reader Eitan K.:
At about 9:30PM on 8/23/10 I was in the waldbaums parking lot getting ready to leave after shopping when I heard the all too familiar screeching of tires and a crashing sound. The sound was loud and startling, and I looked over to the intersection trying to locate which two cars were involved. Only when I saw the bicycle laying in the middle of the intersection of Voorhees and Ocean Avenue did I realise the horror of what had just happened.
Luckily for the victim, as the accident took place an ambulance with its lights and sirens on was passing through the intersection, possibly going to another call. Passerby ran in front of the ambulance to flag it down and the victim recieved immediate medical attention.
The driver of the black cab remained at the scene, and his windshield had a pizza tray sized bust on the driver’s side where apparently the bicyclist impacted. I wasnt able to tell if the bicyclist was wearing a helmet, but he was conscious when he was placed in the ambulance.
Source: newyork.cbslocal.com
A Belt Parkway motorcycle accident this morning has left an NYPD officer hospitalized.
The on-duty officer was riding a department motorcycle in the westbound lanes of the parkway when he collided with a car near Knapp Street, according to CBS 2.
The officer suffered a broken arm, but was conscious and alert after the accident. He was taken to Lutheran Medical Center and is in stable condition.
See video after the jump.
Photo by MSniceguy
One of East 19th Street’s precariously leaning trees lost a limb during yesterday’s storm, which turned up jammed in this car’s windshield.
According to Ray Johnson, who sent in a mini-report last night, the car is between Avenue X and Avenue Y. It didn’t appear the owner was aware of the situation when Ray was on the scene (so if this is your car, don’t kill the messenger. Which is Ray. Don’t kill Ray. And especially don’t kill me.).
But it doesn’t look like the damage is just to the car. It’s hard to make out in the photo after the jump, but the other end of the tree limb is resting on the power lines, which haven’t yet snapped.
A reader who lives very close to this location was just telling me last week about the awful condition of trees and power lines on the block. Many of the trees are leaning or twisted. East 19th Street’s sidewalks bare the scars of unkempt vegetation through lifted and cracked concrete. The power lines weave in and out of branches, many with stress put on them, and some of the poles are leaning as well.
Is this a cry for arboreal assistance? Do you know of other blocks in similar states?
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After we wrote up Friday’s piece about the car accident, in which a police vehicle slammed into a lightpole, reporter Ray Johnson got there to snap some quick photos. But, by the time they were in my inbox, it was officially my weekend. And I had a lot to do.
So, belatedly, here are some more photos of the accident.
View more photos of Friday’s accident.
UPDATE: Here’s a more detailed description that comes via e-mail from reader PR, who lives near the intersection:
So here’s what happened: we hear two big bangs a second apart. Run to the window and see a police car in a light pole on Ocean Avenue and Avenue Y. Note, we didn’t hear any sirens before the bangs.
When we came out we saw that it was actually a red Audi that T-boned the police car, thus making him crash into the pole.
The cop most likely got hurt. All the airbags went off on both cars (side and front). Cop was taken away on a stretcher. Audi driver was a woman.
Police response time was incredible. Under 2 minutes. 30 mins later there are still police cars, fire trucks, etc, coming to the scene.
Original story (7:21 p.m.):
We just got word that an NYPD Lumina patrol car rammed a telephone pole after being T-boned by an Audi SUV. The accident occurred on Ocean Avenue and Avenue Y. It appears the officer may have been injured and a witness is reporting that he was taken away be stretcher. No word yet on the extent of his injuries, or that of the driver/passengers of the Audi. We’ll let you know as we find out more.
In a possibly related development, we just heard that the Belt Parkway has been shut down between Cropsey Avenue and Knapp Street. It could be to assist the ambulance in getting to the hospital faster, or may be totally unrelated (a motorcade was suggested).
Keep reading to view more photos.
Just got this in from reader Janelle F.:
There was a bad bang up on East 23rd Street & Avenue O- no one was hurt, but 3-4 cars were involved in some pretty messed up damage. This minivan being one of the casualties. The other involved was a Zipcar Honda CRV, and another mini-van which had all of it’s airbags deployed.
There’s a red light on that corner, which replaced an all way stop sign. I don’t seem to understand why people just think that they can roll through red lights like it doesn’t apply to them. Oh and it took the cops 35 minutes to show up.
Photo by George
Nostrand Avenue and Avenue Y was blocked off for about 45 minutes this afternoon, after a car burst into flames in the middle of the intersection.
The car was traveling southbound in the left-hand lane at around 2:15 p.m. After pulling into the intersection, the driver said she noticed smoke coming from the hood of the car, and the flames coming out of the sides. She jumped out of the car and watched from the sidewalk as flames engulfed the vehicle.
No one was harmed in the incident, which she said was probably caused by an electrical problem.
When we spoke to her, she waited for her husband to pick her up and joked about the incident.
“I don’t care,” she said. “It’s just a car. No one got hurt. I got out. It’s just a car and I don’t care.”
Firefighters put out the flames while police shut down Nostrand Avenue for a half block in each direction. A police truck came and towed the remains away, leading to the full reopening of the avenue by 3:00 p.m.
View more photos of the car after the fire.
We just got word that there’s been a car accident on East 12th Street and Avenue P. It looks like a car hit a parked car on the southwest corner of the intersection. Our tipster said firefighters were on the scene, and were using crowbars to open one of the vehicles. Ambulances arrived as the tipster called us.
In the above photo of the scene captures the fire trucks. The pickup truck is obscuring the accident itself, but just over the hood of his car, you can see the firemen working on the vehicle.
We’ll have more information as it becomes available. If you know anything or have photos/video of the scene, please send it to nberke [at] sheepsheadbites [dot] com.
A subway operator failed to search adequately for the body of a commuter that fell between cars, clearing the way for 10 more trains to run it over before being discovered, a report from the New York Post reveals.
The incident occurred on March 28 at the Kings Highway station of the N train, in Gravesend.
Here’s the story from the Post:
The tragedy unfolded as Arabell Lin, 25, who has a prosthetic right leg, was walking between the cars of a Coney Island-bound N train on March 28.
After she fell, she hit a device on one of the cars that triggers the emergency brake when the train encounters an obstruction.
The operator, whose name was not released, got out of the cab and spent seven minutes walking up and down the track, looking under each car for whatever caused the train to stop.
Then the operator climbed aboard and continued the trip.
Keep reading to find out what happened next.
