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Two drivers, both from Long Island, suffered a head-on collision on the Long Island Expressway, according to a New York Car Accident Lawyer. One of them was later charged with drunken driving and was driving the wrong way, police said. Not only did the cars collide, but there was an explosion as well. Both men were in critical condition, due to the accident.

A 30-year-old Hempstead man and a 64-year-old man from Greenlawn were taken to New York Hospital Medical Center of Queens in Flushing after the early morning crash between Exits 24 and 25, sources in the NYPD told a New York Injury Lawyer.

Police told a New York Car Accident Lawyer that the Hempstead man was intoxicated and driving above the speed limit when he drove his Mercedes west on the eastbound side of the highway. He crashed into the man from Greenlawn, who was driving a Super Shuttle, a vehicle used to transport passengers to and from the airport. There were no passengers in the vehicle at the time of the incident.

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An 11-year-old girl has been declared to be in critical but stable condition after she was struck by a car in North Bellport, hospital officials told a New York Injury Lawyer. She remains hospitalized for the time being.

The North Bellport girl was struck while walking with her family to her great-grandmother’s home on Station Road at about 11:40 p.m., police told a New York Car Accident Lawyer. She was taken to Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Medical Center in East Patchogue at first, then transferred to Stony Brook University Medical Center, to undergo extensive surgical procedures.

She had a head injury and a number of broken bones from striking the windshield of the car, police told a New York Injury Lawyer. The driver is not being charged for the accident. New York Car Accident Lawyers have yet to learn if the girl’s condition has changed nor do they currently have any further details regarding the driver.

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An airport shuttle driver was struck by an allegedly drunken man driving the wrong way on the Long Island Expressway over the Fourth of July weekend, and subsequently died, sources told a New York Injury Lawyer.

The 64-year-old shuttle driver, of Greenlawn, was pronounced dead at New York Hospital Medical Center in Queens, where his family had been waiting all morning to learn of his fate, a family friend told a New York Car Accident Lawyer.

“Everybody’s devastated,” said the family friend. A law enforcement source has informed New York Injury Lawyers that the suspected drunken driver’s charges are likely to be upgraded, since someone died in the accident.

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Two New York Police officers were injured in Bronx crash when a drunk driver struck two cars at an intersection at White Plains and Gun Hill Roads. One of the cars was an unmarked police car according to New York Car Accident Lawyers. Two officers and the driver of the second vehicle were injured at approximately 11:30 PM.

Approximately fifteen minutes later, the driver who was thought to have been drinking hit another car near Central Park Avenue near McLean Avenue. The occupants of the second crash were a sixty-five year old man and his sixty-three year old wife. The man was killed and his wife was hospitalized. The driver was arrested and charged with vehicular manslaughter report New York Injury Lawyers.

The man charged in the accident was originally charged with DWI but the charges were upgraded to manslaughter

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When a three-car pile-up occurs due to the fact that one of the drivers, a nineteen year old crossed the centerline and collided with an oncoming Audi sedan and a Ford SUV. New York Car Accident Lawyers report that the passenger, a nineteen-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene. This was apparently the only fatality in this three-car incident.

If you find yourself in a situation similar to this one, the firm of Stephen Bilkis and Associates has capable lawyers to help you make sense of the events as well find your rights regarding the accident and your loss. In this particular case, the three people in the SUV were treated for minor injuries and no one in the Sedan was hurt.

Although this type of accident occurs much more often than anyone would feel comfortable admitting, the details on how to handle the events, which follow a fatal loss, are sometimes difficult to see and understand depending on the ability of the victims to find a firm that specializes in New York Injury Lawyers.

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An online petition has been started to convince the Suffolk district attorney to upgrade charges against a driver who killed two Connetquot High School students in an accident, New York Injury Lawyers have learned. Police say this driver had a revoked license at the time of the crash.

The petition gained nearly 800 signatures in the first few days. The woman who started the petition was a friend of the families of the slain high school students, and says that the petition was signed by family, friends, and friends-of-friends of the boys who died in the crash – a 17-year-old from Oakdale, and a 16-year-old from Sayville. “This is unique,” a professor of media studies told a New York Car Accident Lawyer. “I’ve heard of social media used for social causes, for holding public officials accountable, for helping advocate for or against an issue. I’ve not encountered one where people are trying to influence a case.”

Suffolk police have told New York Injury Lawyers that the 28-year-old Selden man who was driving the fatal vehicle was charged with third-degree aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, which carries a maximum punishment of 30 days in jail, authorities told a New York Injury Lawyer. A spokesman for the district attorney would not tell New York Car Accident Lawyers if the petition would have any effect on the charges being brought forward.

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A newly married woman was killed in a multi-vehicle accident reports New York Car Accident Lawyers. Authorities report that the crash occurred shortly before 10 PM and involved a westbound car and a tractor-trailer. Add in icy conditions and the recipe for disaster is set. New York Car Accident Lawyers report that in this accident, a tractor-trailer initially rolled over onto the car.

A twenty-year-old passenger and a ten-year-old boy were killed in the accident and the 66-year-old driver of the westbound car was killed as well. Lawyers will consult in situations where family members are lost at the hands of an incompetent driver.

In addition to the death of the young woman and the ten-year-old boy, six others were involved in the accident, however, each were fortunate enough to suffer only minor injuries. New York injury Lawyers are always happy to meet with clients to discuss problems that arise from various degrees of accidents.

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A Riverhead man may well spend the rest of his life behind bars for causing a 2008 accident that killed a furniture salesman from Manorville, a Suffolk prosecutor told a New York Car Accident Lawyer.

The 50-year-old man from Riverhead was facing a sentence between 12 ½ to 25 years for the death of the 45-year-old furniture salesman, but will have to appear again in Suffolk County Court to determine whether his previous felony convictions make him eligible for a longer sentence, an assistant district attorney remarked to a New York Injury Lawyer.

The assistant district attorney also told a New York Injury Lawyer that the driver of the car could be sentence to life in prison if the judge classifies him as a persistent felony offender.

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The Brooklyn District Attorney has decided to look into a crash between a Vespa and an SUV that killed a mother for three, a New York Car Accident Lawyer has learned.

The 40-year-old woman was killed when her scooter ran right into an SUV being driven by a Treasury Department official at a busy Fort Greene intersection, sources told a New York Injury Lawyer. The authorities determined there was no criminal activity involved in the crash and did not charge the driver of the SUV.

Since then, several witnesses have come forward to state to the District Attorney’s investgatores that the SUV ran through a red light at the corner of DeKalb Ave. and Clinton Ave. right before the collision occurred, law enforcement sources told a New York Car Accident Lawyer.

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When a young man signs up and reports to duty in any branch of the United States military, he knows the risks that exist in times of war. However, once home on the turn in which he was born and raised, one particular marine had possibly let down the guard he would normally use during a time of war. In this case, a New York man has been charged with manslaughter and driving under the influence in connection with the death of the twenty-four year old Connecticut soldier reports New York Car Accident Lawyers.

The driver of the automobile was an inebriated twenty-five-year-old who has been arraigned in a Norwalk Superior Court and was held in lieu of a $250,000 bond. If you find yourself in a situation like this one,

Authorities say that the driver an SUV that hit a tree and killed his friends who was a passenger in the automobile. The blood alcohol level of the driver was 0.21 more than the legal limit. The young man who lost his life had just returned from a seven-month tour in Iraq. New York Injury Lawyers are available to help families understand the events of the accident as well as the charges, which have been filed against the driver.

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