Results tagged “crash”

A small plane crashed into a building in Austin, TX at 9:30 a.m. The building does not contain an FBI office; the FBI has an office at another building in the same complex. According to Austinist, "There's some wild speculation flying around Twitter that the crash was intentional. Statesman reports eyewitnesses stating that the plane approached the building at 'full throttle.' One nearby eyewitness described the plane's trajectory as 'very controlled.'" Update: "12:42 p.m.: The pilot of the plane had set his house on fire beforehand, stole the plane and crashed it intentionally, a federal official told CNN." more ›

Tests show that former Nets player Jayson Williams's blood alcohol level was twice the legal limit after he crashed his Mercedes SUV into a tree in Manhattan last month. After his blood was finally tested at Bellevue, the results came back at 0.19 (it was previously rumored to have been .24, thrice the legal limit). But still, driving drunk at twice the legal limit is enough to double his trouble—the DA wants Williams, 41, to serve a year in jail, the maximum DWI punishment, after he does time for his other crimes. more ›

A small plane broke apart during an aborted landing at Monmouth Executive Airport yesterday afternoon, killing all five on board. Witnesses sledding on a nearby hill say the plane, a Cessna 337 Skymaster, did not have its landing gear down and it appeared the pilot had been coming in for a landing, then tried to abort. One bystander says that as the plane pulled up, the tail of the plane broke off, the right wing dipped, and the main body of the Cessna rolled before crashing upside down into a snowy field by the runway, scattering debris over 200 feet. more ›

A New Jersey woman narrowly avoided a fiery death in yesterday’s crash on the Long Island Expressway, thanks to an anonymous Good Samaritan. On Saturday morning a gasoline tanker clipped Marie Medina’s Dodge Neon when she stalled on the L.I.E. near exit 48. The truck flipped on its side and exploded into a giant fireball that killed driver Mujahid Shahin, a Brooklyn man in his fifties, according to the NY Post. But someone pulled Medina from her vehicle before she became the accident's second casualty. "He saved me. I kept thanking him," said the woman, who has only minor injuries. Just this morning, officials re-opened eastbound lanes on the expressway, reported AP. more ›

According to WCBS 2, "A small plane landing at Teterboro Airport with three people on board skidded off the runway and became stuck in mud... The plane, a Gulfstream 200 owned by BB & T Finance Corp. out of Charlotte, N.C., made its descent over Teterboro around 9:45 Thursday morning." The three passengers appear to have been uninjured. Back in 2005, a private plane taking off from the NJ airport skidded across a highway and crashed into a warehouse. more ›

Recently, PlaneOddity posted a slew of old New York photos, all taken between the 1920s and 1960s. This one of the swastika-adorned Hindenburg zeppelin flying over Manhattan caught our eye. The Hindenburg flew over New York City on May 6th, 1937... just before meeting its fiery end in New Jersey (more video). Surprisingly, of the 97 souls onboard, 62 survived the crash (though many suffered serious injuries). more ›

A Staten Island man celebrating his 22nd birthday died in the back seat of a car during a beer run early yesterday morning. Derrick Moore, 22, was in the rear of a borrowed Cadillac Catera driven by 24-year-old Darrin Siler around 6 a.m. Sunday when the car hit a light pole, a fire hydrant and a tree, then flipped onto its side. Investigators say Siler, who suffered minimal injuries, was not drunk, but may have been speeding. Moore, Siler, and another man who broke his leg in the crash had been out partying when they met a 19-year-old girl, who later drove them in her mother's Cadillac to an "after-party" at a friend's apartment. "The girl admits to loaning her car out to somebody she doesn't even know," a source tells the Staten Island Advance. more ›

More Staten Island stealing, and this job's pretty simple: A man wearing an International Brotherhood of Teamsters jacket drives his SUV into the front doors of a closed laundromat, steals the register, and rolls away. BAM: In and out in 14 seconds with a big laundromat score. He's probably sitting on a beach right now earning twenty percent. The caper went down on December 26th, but police just released this surveillance tape now. Watch it below: It's high speed, so for your viewing pleasure we've also embedded "Yakety Sax" (the Benny Hill Show "theme). Press the Benny Hill video first, count to three, then hit the surveillance tape—so freaky how they sync up like Wizard of Oz and Dark Side of the Moon: more ›

After crashing his car on the Whitestone Expressway in an apparent attempt to shake FBI agents on his tail, a Queens man connected to Najibullah Zazi's alleged subway bombing plot was arrested at a Queens hospital, where he was being treated for minor injuries. Adis Medunjanin, 25, saw federal agents "swarming" his apartment as he arrived around 3:45 p.m. yesterday, and sped off. After crashing in Whitestone, he attempted to flee the scene but was apprehended by agents. more ›

[UPDATE BELOW] Former Nets player Jayson Williams is being arraigned on drunk driving charges this morning from his bed in Bellevue, where he's being treated for injuries sustained in his Tuesday morning car crash. The arraignment will be broadcast live into Manhattan Supreme Court via a camera setup in his room, and if there's any justice in this world someone will have the good sense to leak it to TMZ. (Or [email protected]!) Though it was originally reported that Williams's injuries were minor, he did chip a bone in his neck when he crashed his Mercedes-Benz SUV into a tree at the FDR exit at East 20th Street. Sources tell TMZ that Williams is "in and out of consciousness," which doesn't really sound all that different from his usual condition. more ›

[UPDATES BELOW] Former NBA player Jayson Williams was hospitalized with minor injuries earlier this morning after crashing his Mercedes-Benz SUV into a tree at the FDR exit at East 20th Street around 3:15 a.m. Though he hasn't been charged with DUI, police sources tell the AP they believe he had been drinking. more ›

More bitterly sad details have emerged on that fatal SUV crash on the Bruckner expressway late Monday night. 12-year-old Kaitlin Booth was killed when the SUV she was riding in jumped a curb, tore through a chain-link fence, crashed into a tree stump, and flipped on its side. Police believe the SUV was driven by an unnamed 15-year-old boy who took his mother's vehicle for a spin, with his neighbor Kaitlin along for the ride. Investigators say he was probably going 50 mph in a 30 mph zone, and may have lied about his actions when police arrived. more ›

A Bronx man has filed a lawsuit against the NYPD after an accident with a cop car left him bruised. And scratched! Details are sketchy, but cyclist Michael Molina's lawyer tells the Daily News, "He's doing okay now." The lawsuit accuses officer Patrick McKenna of driving at an unreasonable speed and failing to brake properly before crashing into Molina near the Macombs Dam Bridge on April 25th. The city's law department says they have not yet received the legal papers, but we'll follow up if there's more info and hopefully please God some video of the incident. more ›

An underage driver doing 51 mph in a 30 mph zone on the Bruckner expressway last night flipped his family's GMC Envoy and killed his 12-year-old front seat passenger, police sources say. The victim, a Bronx girl identified as Kaitlin Booth, was rushed Jacobi Hospital, where she died. The name of the 15-year-old driver hasn't been released, but investigators believe the accident happened after the vehicle jumped a curb, tore through a chain-link fence, crashed into a tree stump, and flipped on its side. more ›

On this day 49 years ago, two planes collided in midair above Staten Island — causing the United Airlines flight to crash into a Park Slope intersection (7th Avenue and Sterling Street) and a TWA aircraft's wreckage to land in Miller Field on Staten Island. The crash killed 134 passengers as well as 6 people on the ground — one young boy survived the crash, but died at the NY Methodist hospital the next day. The Bowery Boys note there are still scars to be seen on Sterling Place, and more images of the aftermath can be seen at the Brooklyn Public LIbrary. more ›

A Staten Island mother is accused of driving under the influence with her children in the car — but her lawyer claims she wasn't the one behind the wheel. Jennifer Rivas, 25, apparently lost control of her Nissan Maxima on Wednesday at around 11:10 pm and smashed her car into a storage container off of South Avenue. more ›

Earlier this afternoon, a tragic car crash unfolded on the eastbound Bruckner Expressway. A woman in an SUV was killed, while two other vehicles—a postal truck and Tom Brokaw's car—were also involved. Brokaw and his wife were not injured; the condition of the USPS employee is not known. According to MyFoxNY, "Just before the crash, a spool of cable bounced along the far right lane, according to the Brokaws, who were traveling in the far left lane." more ›

Yesterday, the Florida Highway Patrol released photographs of Tiger Woods' damaged SUV, which had crashed into a fire hydrant and tree outside his Windermere home. And the crash wasn't just a simple crash down his driveway—the Post says, "Tiger Woods turned a ritzy gated community into a one-vehicle demolition derby as he fled his home as if he were being chased by an angry woman wielding a golf wedge," referring to the rumors that he and wife Elin Nordegren were arguing about his alleged dalliances. more ›

Bowing to pressure from families of drunk driving victims, state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has thrown his support behind a bill that would make it a felony to drive with a blood alcohol content of .08 while a passenger 15 years old or under is in the car. The legislation is named for 11-year-old Leandra Rosado, who recently died in a crash on the Henry Hudson Parkway while riding with her friend's allegedly drunk mother. more ›

From the Post: "A driver distracted by her ringing cellphone smashed into a tractor-trailer in Brooklyn early yesterday -- injuring her two adult passengers but remarkably leaving her baby boy unscathed, witnesses said. 'I looked away, and the car went out of control,' said Carmen Natel, 31, who'd been driving two female co-workers home from a party at their boss' house." The incident occurred at Humboldt and Greenpoint—and a security guard "pulled 10-month-old Jaydi from the mangled wreck." more ›

The woman who killed eight people, including herself, when she drove her minivan the wrong way on the Taconic Parkway was a heavy drinker and frequent marijuana smoker, the woman's sister-in-law told investigators. Despite her husband's repeated claims that his wife wasn't an alcoholic or regular drug user, Diane Schuler's in-law revealed to police that the 36-year-old "was a hard drinker" who "used marijuana daily because of the fact that she didn't believe in doctors," according to an attorney representing the families of two men killed in the July accident. more ›

George Adde, 66, claims he sustained a herniated disk in his lower back when other passengers fell on him during the 2003 Staten Island ferry crash, which killed 11 people and injured many others. Taxpayers have spent $66.9 million settling 161 of the 171 cases filed in the aftermath of the accident, including a $6.5 million payout to a man who lost part of his right leg. Adde was probably counting on a million or two to help him cope with his back pain, but there was just one teensy problem with his lawsuit. more ›

The off-duty NYPD detective who fatally struck an elderly pedestrian early Friday morning in the Bronx had a blood alcohol level of 0.21 percent almost six hours after the accident. Despite delaying the test for hours by refusing to cooperate without a warrant, 22-year NYPD veteran Kevin Spellman, 42, was still very intoxicated. (The legal limit is 0.08 percent.) Spellman's alcohol level was certainly much higher at the time of the crash, but because people metabolize alcohol at different rates, it's anyone's guess how wasted he was at 6:30 a.m. more ›

Though former Fox 5 TV reporter Mike Sheehan originally said "neigh" to charges that he was drunk when he drove into a mounted police officer in March, yesterday he pleaded guilty to driving while impaired by alcohol. Sheehan drove into the horse and cop on Varick Street in Tribeca, leaving the cop with a bruised leg and the horse with cuts, bruises and scrapes; he refused to take a Breathalyzer test after the accident. In true Fox news style, Sheehan had claimed that the horse was actually to blame for colliding with him. more ›

Two girls have died from a horrible van crash in St. Albans, Queens that occurred at 5 p.m. yesterday. Both were foster children: The first, a 15-year-old, died late Monday night, and the other, a 5-year-old died at 4:30 this morning. The Daily News reports that driver Shelia Bethea, 45, "crossed the double-yellow line on Dunkirk St. in Saint Albans while going between 60 and 70 miles an hour, slamming her minivan into another van." more ›

An East Village resident sent us these photos of the aftermath of a horrific automobile crash that happened early this morning, at First Avenue and Fourth Street. An NYPD spokesman tells us that according to a "preliminary report," a 55-year-old black female was killed after a delivery van and minivan collided. Apparently, the minivan was so totaled that EMS had to cut the top off to get inside. The spokesman said there were no other injuries (which seems hard to believe) and no one was charged (which seems typical). Streetsblog hears an "unconfirmed" report that "this was a T-bone collision in which the minivan ran the light." more ›

A Staten Island man died early Sunday morning while trying to back his SUV out of a tight parking space in a pub parking lot. Oleg Kantarovich had gone outside to pull the car around for his wife, who was celebrating her 30th birthday, so that she wouldn't get caught in the rain. Police say he was leaning out of the front door of his 2007 Audi SUV as he backed up because it may have been difficult to see through the tinted side window. more ›

The woman who allegedly drove drunk and crashed a vehicle full of young girls on the West Side Highway—killing her daughter's 11-year-old friend—is reportedly so upset that she's on suicide watch. A sourced tells the Daily News, "The first thing she says to anyone who walks into her room is that she deserves to die. That she is going to kill herself. She's not doing well right now." more ›

More upsetting details about the horrible crash on the West Side Highway that left an 11-year-old girl dead and six other girls injured, not to mention the mother who was allegedly driving drunk at the time. Melody Sanchez, whose daughter 11-year-old daughter Kayla (pictured) is in critical condition after being thrown from the overloaded Mercury Sable, said that Carmen Huertas essentially taunted the girls about her terrible driving. more ›

Early Sunday morning, a Bronx woman driving a 1998 Mercury Sable—carrying seven children, including her daughter, ages 11 to 14—crashed and overturned her car on the West Side Highway. An 11-year-old girl was killed and the Daily News reports, "Investigators said Carmen Huertas' blood-alcohol content was more than one and a half times the legal limit." Huertas, 31, was charged with vehicular manslaughter and drunk driving. The girl's father said, "I call this murder." more ›