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Mystery car accidents are frustrating for the police, particularly when it involves children, as in this case, commented the New York Injury Lawyer. The 15-year old was ejected from the car she was riding in when it veered off the road and went into a roll over. She was dead on impact with the ground.
The vehicle in which she was riding had been headed to the nearest town and was being driven by an 18-year old young man, who didn’t have that much experience driving. Ambulance crews took him to the hospital, where he was treated for minor injuries and discharged. As soon as he was discharged, he was arrested. Another 21-year old man was arrested at the scene of the accident.
Police aren’t certain yet as to what happened to cause the first car that the young girl was riding in to go off the road, but they have suspicions that the two cars that were traveling together, were speeding and racing one another. The police are asking for any eye witnesses to come forward and help them with the investigation. They particularly want to talk to anyone who saw the blue Corsa before it flipped or a white Ford Fiesta. They’re hoping they can get to the bottom of what caused this fatality. Authorities in Nassau and Suffolk Counties are watching this case carefully.
The family of the young girl will be completely devastated and likely want to investigate filing a wrongful death lawsuit. In order to do that, they need to take their case to an experienced New York Injury Attorney.

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A hit-and-run driver from Massapequa Park is attempting to prove he did not run from the scene of an accident that killed a pedestrian from Bellmore. The 45-year-old defendant was silent was at his arraignment in Nassau County First District Court in Hempstead.
He is now free on $10,000 bail, but his driver’s license has been suspended for 30 days to allow a judge to review the defendant’s record and assess the possibility of him driving again at some point in the future. Leaving the scene of an accident with death is a felony charge, which gives the defendant plenty of motivation to fight it.
NY Injury Lawyers learned from Nassau police the following details: The defendant was driving down Sunrise Highway in Bellmore when he struck and killed a 64-year-old man from Floral Park, at around 9 in the evening. The next afternoon, the defendant turned himself in to Nassau police at their headquarters in Mineola.
When the suspect was arraigned there were more than a dozen of his family members in attendance to show their support for him at the hearing. Any questions directed to the defendant were answered instead by his attorney.
The attorney maintains his client feels great remorse and is fully cooperating with authorities to get the bottom of what really happened in the incident that ended the life of a man from Bellmore.
“He’s distraught and feels terrible for the deceased and the deceased’s family,” the attorney told Nassau County Injury Lawyers. “It’s just a tragedy all around.”
According to police sources, the victim was attempting to cross Sunrise Highway near Washington Avenue in Bellmore when a dark-colored vehicle struck and killed him. After the accident, Sunrise Highway was closed for four hours as police attended to the scene.
Allowing someone to get away with causing great harm is not justice. There are costs to pay, if not medical, then emotional and mental. Nothing can erase the harm caused, but that does not mean there is no cause for compensation or for the perpetrator to pay the full cost of the harm he or she has caused.

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Two suffered injuries when a sport utility vehicle flipped over near Exit 17 of the Southern State Parkway in Malverne, New York State Police have stated.
The injured people were not identified, but police assured New York Injury Lawyers their injuries were not life-threatening. The SUV flipped over in the westbound lane at about 9:20 in the morning.
One of the injured persons was taken to Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow and the other to Winthrop University Hospital in Mineola, a state trooper told New York Injury Lawyers. The cause of the accident remains unknown, as does the possibility of criminal charges. Police managed to clear the scene in about three hours.
In Melville, police issued 13 tickets while manning a bus safety checkpoint.
Not only did they hand out tickets, but police removed two drivers from service for safety violations and removed four vehicles from service for mechanical defects. Police say the tickets were issued for various violations of state transportation law. Lawyers in Nassau and Suffolk Counties handle these cases on a contingency basis.
Eighteen busses and limousines were inspected at the check point near Exit 49 on the Long Island Expressway. Police explained to New York Injury Lawyers the checkpoint was “part of an ongoing state-wide initiative.”
There was another check point in April, which resulted in 11 drivers and vehicles receiving tickets and being taken out of service. A man killed in an accident in Ronkonkoma has been identified. The 40-year-old victim was killed around midnight on a Saturday at Express Drive North.
A 57-year-old man was driving a Ford F350 up Hawkins Avenue when his truck hit the victim’s Dodge Ram, New York City Injury Lawyers have remarked. The victim was pronounced dead at Stony Brook University Medical Center less than an hour later.
The 57-year-old driver of the Ford was not injured and police continue to investigate in an attempt to find out exactly what happened.
A spokesman for the family of the victim had no comment, except to say the family is grieving

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A 40-year-old woman remains in grave condition, on a respirator. She was the passenger in a car that jumped from a Queensboro Bridge ramp in April.
The victim sustained major head injuries in the accident. Her prognosis is grim and she is not expected to live much longer. The Volkswagen she was riding in jumped the curb in Queen Plaza South in Long Island City and smashed into the front of a store, police sources reported to NYC Injury Lawyers.
The store the vehicle hit had already suffered recent damage when another car crashed into not much more than a week before. A cab driver, who was walking in the area at the time, was killed.
As for the driver of the Volkswagen, the 39-year-old man lost his arm and was taken to Bellevue Hospital. After the accident, he was charged with driving without a license.
The woman is still considered to be in critical condition at New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell.
A number of elected officials, including a state senator will meet at the site of the two crashes to implore the city’s Transportation Department to investigate the area’s street design and improve traffic safety so such accidents will never happen again.
There are many accidents in the United States every day, just in the New York City area alone including Suffolk and Nassau counties. Sadly, many of them happen because of someone else’s negligence. A dangerous ramp at a well-trafficked area causing two terrible crashes is a clear sign that someone did something wrong. It may even be a case for someone calling a Lawyer to make sure one or more of the victims is properly compensated – or in some cases, the families of the victims. These accidents, whether they cause injury or death, can often have costs that run higher than most families can afford. Families facing such expenses need compensation, just as those that caused the accident should pay for the pain and suffering they have caused. This is exactly what a NYC Injury Lawyer is there to provide.

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