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A dwarf activist known for his vocal demonstrations on issues from gay rights to disabled rights to transportation was killed when struck by a taxi as he left a meeting on the Lower East Side, authorities told a New York Injury Lawyer.

The 57-year-old activist walked with the aid of crutches from a meeting of Community Board 3 at Public School 20, and was struck by a yellow cab as he tried to cross Essex Street in the middle of the block, fellow board members informed a New York Car Accident Lawyer.

The activist was rushed immediately to Bellevue Hospital, but was pronounced dead upon arrival. New York Personal Injury Lawyers have yet to determine the exact details of the accident, or indeed if any further information is forthcoming.

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The family of a deceased Suffolk County police officer recently unveiled signs that officially named an intersection after the officer, reports a New York Injury Lawyer. The intersection at Vanderbilt Motor Parkway and Commack Road is where the 22-year police veteran was killed on February 22, 2009, while he was responding to a call for assistance from another officer. His car was hit by an alleged drunken driver.

As dozens of officers stood at attention, the Suffolk County Police Pipes and Drums Emerald Society played “God Bless America” and “Amazing Grace” during the ceremony. A Suffolk legislator declared to a New York Personal Injury Lawyer the signs would do more than remind others of a police officer who lost his life protecting the public. They are also signs that remind others of the dangers of driving drunk.

The wife of the slain officer agreed. “I hope these signs will be a lesson to be learned,” she told a New York Car Accident Laywer. She continued on to say that her husband’s death “still affects so many people”. The officer’s family will go next to Albany, then to Washington D.C. for memorial services held for officers killed in the line of duty.

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Former President Bill Clinton was recently involved in a fender bender, when his van was rear-ended in Connecticut, while he was traveling to give a commencement address at Yale, according to a New York Car Accident Lawyer.

A car following the Clinton motorcade ran into the van, which was moving slowly due to traffic congestion on the Merritt Parkway, said a New York Car Accident Lawyer. “Everybody in the lane slowed down, and we all slowed down, and one person didn’t,” Clinton said. “It happened to be the person behind us.” New York Personal Injury Lawyers have determined that no one was injured in the accident.

Clinton went on to give his speech to the graduates of the Ivy League school, making anti-technology remarks similar to those given by President Obama at Hampton University two weeks prior, sources reported to a New York Personal Injury Lawyer. “One problem we have in the modern world is we’ve got access to more information than ever before, but we don’t all listen to the same information,” Clinton said. He went on to say that the world “is too unstable, it is too unequal, and it is completely unsustainable.”

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A contractor stopped a red light heard a startlingly noise, like a “big bang”. He turned to see a speeding Toyota with two teenage girls screaming as they clung to the hood of the car, which had just struck them. Two other girls were lying on the pavement, bleeding. The Upper Brookville contractor, 45, sped after the fleeing car to stop it.

Nassau police sources told a New York Car Accident Lawyer that the contractor chased the hit-and-run driver through rush hour Wednesday evening traffic for about a mile, from the intersection of Glen Cove and Old Country roads, finally stopping him at Clinton Road and Osborne Road. The girls, all 16-years-old, and friends at Herricks High School in Hyde Park, had been returning from a trip to the mall when they were struck hard enough to smash the windshield, police informed a New York Personal Injury Lawyer.

One girl needed more than 100 stitches to her head, police informed a New York Car Accident Lawyer. All of them were taken to hospitals and expected to survive. The girls were headed to catch a bus when the Toyota ran a red light and struck them in the crosswalk, where they had the right of way. The contractor, in his own vehicle, chased down the Toyota and pulled the 26-year-old driver out, holding him for the police. Police told a New York Personal Injury Lawyer the Toyota “hit all four of these girls with such force that he sent two of them flying onto the sidewalk and the other two were clinging for their lives on the hood of this car.”

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A woman backing out of her driveway during the early morning hours in Deer Park mistakenly pressed the accelerator pedal rather than the brake , and crashed her vehicle into the house of a neighbor, according to a New York Car Accident Lawyer.

No injuries were suffered in the incident, which occurred on Scott Avenue at approximately 6:40 a.m., police told a New York Car Accident Lawyer. The police arrived in response to an original report which stated that the driver had left the scene of an accident.

A witness at the scene mistakenly took a jogger on the same block to be the driver of the car running away from the scene of the accident, a spokeswoman for the police, stated to a New York Injury Lawyer. It was determined when the police arrived that the driver of the car had not, in fact, left the scene. Her name is being withheld by the police at this time and no further details are currently available.

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Details remain unclear on the circumstances of an early morning June 29th accident that killed a 23-year-old resident of Deer Park. Third Precinct officers and fighter fighters told New York Injury Lawyers they arrived on the scene near Good Samaritan Hospital in West Islip to find a block-long field of shattered glass and plastic, and a sedan smashed to the point of being nearly unrecognizable, both the hood and the roof torn off. A utility pole, snapped in half with the top still dangling from the wires above, indicated the point where the car went of the road and shot down the sidewalk.

The victim was trapped inside the front passenger seat of the overturned car, according to a New York Injury Lawyer. Another young woman in the car at the time, 21, was found outside the car and spoke with officers before she was taken by ambulance to Good Samaritan, sources told a New York Car Accident Lawyer. Detectives have been unable to confirm who was driving the 1995 Lincoln Town Car when the single car crash occurred. They do not believe, however, that there was a third person in the vehicle. Since the victim was wearing a seat belt, she could not have been the driver.

The police are still looking for witnesses to shed further light on details of the crash. New York Car Accident Lawyers have determined the survivor is not confirmed to have been the driver of the vehicle, though the car was owned by one of her relatives. The exact ownership of the car is still under investigation. Police declined to state if the survivor made any comments following the crash. The family of the survivor has not returned calls from reporters.

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A motorcycle rider was killed in an early morning accident in South Hempstead, according to a New York Car Accident Lawyer. The area of Grand Avenue near Village Avenue was closed after the incident by the authorities. The facts on the case are sparse. Currently, it is not even known whether or not there were witnesses who can shed further light on the fatal accident.

The Nassau County police force told a New York Injury Lawyer that the accident occurred around 6:30 a.m. The exact details of what occurred are still under investigation and any further details were not available for release or discussion because they were either unknown or still going through the investigative process.

The only solid fact disclosed about the victim thus far is that he was a man, according to a New York Car Accident Lawyer. The authorities are withholding all other facts related to the accident, including the victim’s name, until the next of kin can be properly notified. A more in-depth investigation will surely uncover further clues as to the cause of the accident as the police investigation unfolds.

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New York state police have made a final report on wrong-way Taconic State Parkway crash that killed eight people in July of 2009. The driver of a minivan, a resident of West Babylon, NY, was both drunk – with a blood alcohol level of .19 percent – and high on marijuana when she plowed into a sport utility vehicle. The SUV was going 74 miles per hour at the time, according to a New York Car Accident Lawyer.

The investigation and reconstruction analysis determined that the minivan was traveling southbound in a northbound lane, when it struck the sport utility vehicle traveling in the northbound lane. A New York Injury Lawyer has been told both vehicles were well over the 55 mile-per-hour speed limit.

Fatalities included the minivan driver, her 2 year-old daughter, and her three nieces, who were nine, seven, and five years of age, who were all in the minivan. Killed in the sport utility vehicle were the driver of that vehicle, 49, his father, age 81, and their friend, age 74. There were also three others injured, according to a New York Injury Lawyer.

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A 25-year-old NYPD copy who crashed on a Queens highway is alleged to have been under the influence of alcohol at the time, according to a New York Injury Lawyer.

The officer from Brooklyn’s 76th Precinct was allegedly drunk when he crashed his 2001 Honda Accord into a guardrail late one night, says a New York Car Accident Lawyer.

The officer was picked up by highway police at about 10:45 p.m. close to Cross Bay Blvd., located in the vicinity of Howard Beach. New York Injury Lawyers have learned the officer was treated for head trauma at Jamaica Hospital, where it was determined that his injuries did not threaten his life.

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A New York City police officer was the intoxicated driver in a deadly car crash that killed two and injured four others, according to a New York Injury Lawyer. He had arrived at a surprise birthday party for a fellow officer at an unspecified time. However, it was known that he had consumed a great deal of alcohol by those at the party including the injured passengers.

The 35 year old officer was driving his 2007 Nissan Altima when he left the party just after 6AM on May 16th,and the accident occurred on the Bronx River Parkway, reported a New York Car Accident Lawyer.

Another New York City police officer who was also in the car that morning was killed as well. The other cop was only 25 and had also been drinking at the party with a blood alcohol level of .21, stated a New York Injury Lawyer. Both officers were in the front seat of the car.

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