New York Car Accident Lawyer Blog
A Brooklyn mom and an aspiring pre-med student from Westchester County were killed in horrifying car accidents early yesterday when their vehicles plunged off rain-slick highways.
Gretchen Patterson, 48, of Powell Street in Brownsville, Brooklyn, died in a four-car smashup that sent her vehicle hurtling 26 feet down an embankment on the Henry Hudson Parkway at West 74th Street, police said.
Patterson’s car was rammed from behind by a Dodge Magnum, driven by Joseph Harris, 29, of Lenox Avenue, that was racing at 90 mph, authorities said. The crash sent Patterson’s vehicle banging into a wall, flipping over it and then plunging down into Riverside Park.
Patterson was pronounced dead at St. Luke’s Hospital after the 12:30 a.m. accident.
Police charged Harris with DWI and vehicular manslaughter.
Deborah Dixon, a neighbor of Patterson’s, said the victim had several adult children.
Meanwhile, in The Bronx, a car driven by Rabindranath Ramjanack, 25, of Mount Vernon went airborne off a rain-slicked Bronx River Parkway East, skidded on a guardrail and flipped 40 feet down into a Metro-North rail yard, police said.
Ramjanack, a Westchester college student who hoped to become a doctor, was pronounced dead at the scene.
His grieving uncle, Dyanan Jaikaran, 44, said he had to call the young man’s parents in Trinidad and give them the heartbreaking news.
A New York Car Accident Lawyer should be called for consultation in both of these accidents. If you are a family member of a person who has been victimized or someone charged in a car accident with negligence, a NY Car Accident Lawyer can help you.
Stephen Bilkis & Associates with its NY Car Accident Lawyers has convenient locations throughout the New York Metropolitan area including Bronxville, NY. Our New York Car Accident Lawyers can provide you with advice relative to personal injury caused by someone else’s negligence in a car accident. Without a N.Y. Car Accident Attorney you will not know all your rights and may not be properly protecting you and your loved ones.