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Camp Dudley is a place where children have spent their summers again and again. Some of the campers and counselors that attend have been coming for ten years or more and as they have grown and changed, they have brought more skills back with them, adding even more to the camp experience. According to a New York Car Accident Lawyer, the extended family of Camp Dudley lost an important part of their team, and everyone at the camp seemed to agree when they had heard about the death of one of their most loved counselors and long time campers.

According to reports by a New York Injury Lawyer, shortly after 3am on December 31st, three long time counselor campers were driving on Camp Dudley Road in Westport. The driver lost control of his vehicle while he was attempting to navigate a sharp right turn. The car struck the tree on the drivers side. The driver was killed and the two passengers who were in the backseat survived.

The next day at Camp Dudley, tears and prayers were commonplace as they said goodbye to one of their own. According to a New York Car Accident Lawyer, it is not known if alcohol played a factor in the crash as toxicology tests are still pending. The tragedy has brought many members closer together in their grief.

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At one thirty eight in the morning, with dawn still hours away, four college men were involved in a startling car wreck. According to a New York Injury Lawyer, the four men were all riding together in an automobile when the sports utility vehicle suddenly hit a wall. The wall was one mile from a local university where it is believed the men attended school. The man driving the sports utility vehicle had to be ripped from the vehicle using hydraulic cutters before being taken by helicopter to the local hospital. With ribs that were broken and internal bleeding coming from locations unknown, the man was whisked through the air so doctors could perform life saving procedures on him, reported a New York Car Accident Lawyer. At last check the man was listed as being in critical condition.

The man’s passengers fared better but in this case better is truly measured on a sliding scale. Passenger number one suffered the cruel fate of having both his legs broken, snapped, and injured, said a New York Injury Lawyer. Passenger number two has both his legs working but he’s hardly in a better condition as he found himself with a pelvis that had been cracked. Passenger number three was the lucky one, if there are any who can truly be considered lucky in such an accident, as his injuries stopped at just one broken leg.

A New York Car Accident Lawyer reports that police are currently conducting an investigation into the crash itself. Police have yet to determine whether or not the sports utility vehicle was traveling in excess of the posted speed limit. The police investigation also extends to learning whether or not alcohol was involved.

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The driver who caused a fatal accident on the Long Island Expressway was charged with second-degree manslaughter and driving while intoxicated. He was traveling in the wrong direction in the eastbound HOV lane and crashed into the median, the police told a New York Car Accident Lawyer.

The 27-year-old driver, a resident of Deer Park, survived with only minor injuries and was detained overnight, a Nassau police homicide squad detective told a New York Injury Lawyer.

The driver and a 28-year-old friend of his were going to Queens after a christening when the driver turned his 2008 Chrysler Town and Country van in the wrong direction. Police received several 911 calls about the vehicle traveling in the wrong direction before the accident occurred.

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A yellow cab lost control and crashed into a coffee shop in the East Village, critically injuring an elderly man, police informed a New York Car Accident Lawyer.

The 71-year-old customer was the most severely injured of the five who were hurt when the SUV taxi plowed into the coffee shop on First Avenue and E. Third Street, after colliding with a Jeep Cherokee around 1:30 a.m. The 49-year-old taxi driver was going north on First Ave. when it hit the Jeep, driven by a 19-year-old man who was turning off E. Third, police sources told New York Injury Lawyers.

When the taxi jumped the curb, it hit two bicyclists, ages 28 and 29, then continued into the coffee shop, where the 71-year-old man was sitting at a table by the front window. A 30-year-old woman and her boyfriend hailed the cab from a lower East Side bar. It was less than a minute later that the cab crashed.

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It wasn’t uncommon for someone in Montana to be able to have a beer while driving down the interstate a high speeds, reports a New York Car Accident Lawyer. In fact, it was legal to drink and drive in many places in Montana until 2005. A few years before there, there was no speed limit on major highways or rural roads.

The high profile death of a highway patrolman who was killed by a drunk driver spurred the change in Montana law to outlaw drinking and driving. New York Injury Lawyers have learned that judges are becoming stricter and law enforcement is looking for new ways to make sure repeat offenders are not a danger to others.

There are still some small town bars that will give out cocktails in to-go cups and repeat drunken drivers are often processed through the system before they are even sober.

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An East Northport man was released from the hospital only to spend his day grieving. He has suffered injuries in a car accident which had killed his wife and father on the Northern State Parkway, family friends told a New York Injury Lawyer.

A spokesman for Winthrop University Hospital confirmed to a New York Car Accident Lawyer that the man had been driving his car to a wedding rehearsal when it went off the road and ran into a tree. He was released from the hospital two days later. His 12-year-old son has also been in the car and was released from a different hospital that day.

The family is “just grieving at this time”, a family spokesman told a New York Injury Lawyer. The crash occurred on the westbound parkway west of Willis Avenue in Searingtown, and killed the man’s wife, 49, and his father, 87.

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A Queens father was crushed to death when the car he was working on collapsed suddenly and fell on top of him, police sources told a New York Car Accident Lawyer.

The 42-year-old man was using an unstable jack to lift his red Toyota Celica in the garage of his South Ozone Park home, and it collapsed as he was using some wrenches underneath, police and family sources told a New York Injury Lawyer. “This is tragic,” said the victim’s brother-in-law, 31. “He was an exceptional guy.”

The family told a New York Injury Lawyer that the deceased had a grown son, and he was an active member of his church, always looking for ways to help his family. “He was quiet, calm, and always had a kind word to say,” said his sister, 46. “He was always there for you,” she told a New York Car Accident Lawyer. “He never said no to anybody if they needed something.”

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Suffolk police have told New York Car Accident Lawyers alcohol appears to have not been involved in a car accident in Bay Shore that killed one man and injured four others, including an emergency medical technician on his way to an accident. No charges are pending.

A 21-year-old volunteer EMT for Brentwood Legion Ambulance, from Bayshore had activated the lights and siren on one of their vehicles, a 2007 Ford Explorer, police sources told a New York Injury Lawyer.

He was responding to a report of an overturned car when he approached the rear of a 1993 Saturn SC, police told a New York Car Accident Lawyer, which shifted right out of the Explorer’s way, then attempted to make a left turn, and the Explorer struck the driver’s side of the Saturn.

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A crash on the Long Island Expressway has left two men in critical condition, after one car drove head-on into the other, speeding and driving the wrong way down the road. They are both in a Flushing hospital’s intensive care unit, according to a New York Injury Lawyer.

A 64-year-old man from Greenlawn was put into a medically induced coma and his friends and family wait with him for further developments in his condition. He was driving his airport shuttle van on the eastbound side of the Long Island Expressway when it was struck head-on by a 2002 Mercedes-Benz driving by a 30-year-old man from Hempstead, a spokeswoman with the New York City Police Department told a New York Car Accident Lawyer. There were no passengers in the shuttle at the time of the accident.

The Greenlawn man is in critical condition and finds it difficult to breath. His lungs have contusions and his rib cage is broken. His pelvis and right leg also suffered fractures, his son-in-law told a New York Injury Lawyer. “He’s fighting for his life right now,” the son-in-law said to a New York Car Accident Lawyer.

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Not smoking, not cancer, not heart disease, but an action that most everyone does every day: car related crashes. Car related crashes are amongst the most common causes of death in the United States of America, reports a New York Injury Lawyer. That terrible feeling of a four thousand pound mess of steel, glass, and plastic getting out of control. That helpless sensation as your coffin skids down the road, stopping who knows where and who knows when, but all the while the one thing known is that the stopping will be violent and angry, says a New York Car Accident Lawyer. The car, that single creation that has so transformed this great nation from one of horses and buggies to one of interstate travel on a daily basis. It has revolutionized the world. But all that change brings with it the greater chance of death. A person is more likely to die driving a car than they are to die flying in an airplane, notes a New York Injury Lawyer. Think about that, defying the laws of God and nature by throwing oneself through the air in a tight metal ball is more safe than driving a car to the store, says a New York Car Accident Lawyer Yet, the world we live in demands we drive and so few of us would ever give it up for that reason. Still, the startling realities are that car crashes happen every day and every day they take a life.

If you have been the victim of a car crash, contact a New York Injury Attorney today.

Stephen Bilkis & Associates with its New York Car Accident Lawyers has convenient locations throughout the NY area including Elmhurst, NY. Our attorneys can give you advice about personal injury caused by another’s negligence. Without a NY Car Accident Lawyer you will not be cognizant of all your rights and could be at a great disadvantage.

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