Thousands of New Yorkers take elevators every day without a second thought. Some riders may occasionally worry about being temporarily stuck in an elevator, but hardly anyone considers the possibility that they could be physically injured. That may be changing. A...
Brooklyn Municipal Liability Lawyer
Brooklyn Municipal Liability Lawyer
Year: 2011
Distracted Driving Simulator Demonstrates Dangers to New York Teens
Students at nine New York-area high schools have the opportunity to take part in a unique type of video game: a driving simulator complete with an irritating passenger who demands that the driver call her brother and send a text message for her. While this may sound...
Brooklyn Bus Company Reincarnated After Being Shut Down Following Tragic Bus Accident
Fifteen people died in a terrible bus accident in March of this year in the Bronx. The bus was owned and operated by World Wide Travel in Brooklyn. According to the New York Times, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) investigation of the tour bus...
Brooklyn Man Becomes City’s Tenth Bicycle Fatality
Earlier this month, New York City experienced its tenth fatal bicycle accident. The 24-year-old Brooklyn man died after he ran a red light and was struck by an SUV. According to Transportation Alternatives, the number of fatal bicycle-accidents appears to be on the...
Distracted Driving? There’s an App for That
It may sound odd that now there is a cell phone app to prevent you from using phone apps, but that is exactly what has been developed. The aim of the new app is to improve road safety by decreasing distracted driving accidents. The new app is called PhoneGuard. This...
Bronx Bus Crash Highlights Need for Safety Measures
Earlier this month 15 passengers were injured in when an MTA bus crashed into two other vehicles in the Bronx. The accident occurred when the bus made an unscheduled stop and struck a sports car and livery cab at the intersection of Third Avenue and 170th Street. One...
Not Everyone On Board With FMCSA Plan to Reduce Truck Accidents
According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), more than 30,000 Americans are killed each year in automobile accidents. In fact, such accidents are the leading cause of death for Americans ages 5-34. Approximately nine percent of those accidents involve commercial...
Recent Decline in National and New York Bankruptcy Filings
Despite the economic downturn, recently a rather surprising statistic was announced, June ended with a decline in bankruptcy filings. This dip is welcomed news after a long stretch of the same old depressing economic downward spiral. The drop in filed bankruptcies was...
Bus Travel: Not Always as Safe as It Seems
If you think bus travel is perfectly safe, think again. According to the Research and Innovative Technology Administration (the research arm of the U.S. Department of Transportation), there were a whopping 60,247 crashes involving buses in 2008. Those 60, 247 crashes...
Multiple Auto Accidents on Ed Koch Bridge Lead to Demands for Safety Improvements
The Automobile Association of America (AAA) is advocating for an immediate redesign of the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge. Within a two month time span, there have been three serious auto accidents on a dangerous ramp off the bridge with a hair-pin curve. One accident in...