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Here at West 74th Street and Central Park West, Henry H. Bliss dismounted from a streetcar and was struck and knocked unconscious by an automobile on the evening of September 13, 1899. When Mr. Bliss, a New York real estate man, died the next morning from his injuries, he became the first recorded motor vehicle fatality in the Western ...
In the early afternoon of October 6, 2018, a stretch limousine crashed at the junction of New York state routes 30 and 30A, north of Schoharie and 30 miles (48 kilometers) west of Albany. The crash killed 20: the driver, all 17 passengers, and two pedestrians who were in a nearby parking lot.
Shortly after 10:30 p.m. on December 13, 1931, Churchill attempted to cross Fifth Avenue in New York City and was struck by a car driven by Cantasano. The crash occurred because Churchill apparently forgot that, in the United States, traffic on two-way roadways keeps to the right whereas in his native United Kingdom it keeps to the left. [3]
March 22 – United States – Gilchrest Road, New York crossing accident. Five high school students were killed and 44 injured when a Penn Central train hit a school bus that failed to stop at a crossing. This incident caused the State of New York to require school vehicles to stop at all railroad crossings.
Sentence. 6 years in prison (reduced from 13 years) [6][7] Amanda Michelle Todd (November 27, 1996 – October 10, 2012) [8][9] was a 15-year-old Canadian student and victim of cyberbullying who hanged herself at her home in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia. A month before her death, Todd posted a video on YouTube in which she used a series of ...
It was the deadliest subway accident to happen in New York since the Times Square disaster of 1928. [1] [6] The first car, 1440, which struck a steel pillar, [3] [5] [7] was cut in half and had its roof sheared off, but its motorman's cab was not damaged. [8] The second, 1439, was folded in half by the barrier between the express and local ...
93–102. Injured. ~250. Wrecked car with wood splinters and glass shards. The Malbone Street wreck, also known as the Brighton Beach Line accident, was a rapid transit railroad accident that occurred on November 1, 1918, on the New York City Subway 's BMT Brighton Line (now part of the BMT Franklin Avenue Line) in the Flatbush neighborhood of ...
The 1908 New York to Paris Race was the world's first circumnavigation by automobile. German, French, Italian, and American teams began in New York City on 12 February 1908, with three competitors ultimately reaching Paris. The US-built Thomas Flyer with George Schuster (driver) won the race covering 35,000 km (22,000 mi) in 169 days.