From: New York attorney Gary E. Rosenberg (personal injury and accident attorney and lawyer; serving Brooklyn Queens Bronx)

Two taxi/livery cabs hit on Bruckner Boulevard in the Bronx yesterday at around 4:00 P.M. One hit a van and one jumped the curb and struck and killed a pedestrian. The pedestrian suffered a heart attack and died at Lincoln Hospital.

The drivers of all three vehicles and the hurt and injured passengers were taken to Jacobi Medical Center and Lincoln Hospital.

From: New York attorney Gary E. Rosenberg (personal injury and accident attorney and lawyer; serving Brooklyn Queens Bronx)

Friday evening – May 16^th – just before 7 p.m. a Chevy Astrovan was heading south on Lexington Avenue.  At 125^th Street the van sped onto the sidewalk near a crowded subway station, plowed into bystanders, and hit a wall.

The van’s driver, Cesar Tabora, age 58, was pronounced dead. It appeared that he suffered a heart attack while driving.

Seven pedestrians were injured. A two year-old boy was pinned under the van and suffered life-threatening injury. Also hurt were a seven year-old girl and five adults.

Commentary:  No word yet if the driver had a previously diagnosed heart condition. If so, did he have any business driving? Was he careless? Negligent? Reckless?

From: New York attorney Gary E. Rosenberg (personal injury and accident attorney and lawyer; serving Brooklyn Queens Bronx)

Accident last Tuesday (May 13^th) in Brooklyn. Akeem Suluki, age 9, was hit by a car – a Dodge Charger – and thrown into the air at around 3:30 p.m. at the intersection of Macon St. and Reid Ave. in Brooklyn.

At the time he was walking home from elementary school and holding a crossing guard's hand.

Suluki was taken to Kings County Hospital, in critical condition, suffering from head trauma and brain injury. He was on a respirator and also suffered a collapsed lung and several broken and fractured bones.

Driver Shyquan Burns, age 16, fled the scene after the accident but later turned himself in to police. He was charged with leaving the scene of an accident and driving without a license.

Commentary: How does a 16 year-old boy get a car to drive? Who owned that Dodge Charger? Where were Burns’ parents?

From:  New York attorney Gary E. Rosenberg (personal injury and accident attorney and lawyer; serving Brooklyn Queens Bronx)

This is an older new article with an update.

On May 8, 2008, shortly after midnight, two cars were drag racing on 164^th Place and 109^th Avenue in Jamaica, Queens.

One of the racing vehicles, a BMW, collided with a Ford Escape, ejecting from the back seat of the Ford five year-old Jordan Mclean, the nephew of the Ford’s driver. Jordan suffered head injury and brain trauma and was later pronounced dead at Jamaica Hospital. The other two people in the Ford were not seriously hurt.

Both the driver of the BMW and the other drag racer drove from the scene to avoid police.

Last night (Friday, May 9^th) the driver of the BMW, Shelmar Adams, age 30, of Jamaica, surrendered to police. He was charged with leaving the scene of a fatal accident.

Commentary:  I have a sad and perhaps too-obvious point to make. Although nowhere mentioned in the news reports of this horrible accident, if the child (Jordan Mclean) had been in a child seat or toddler seat with a seatbelt on, he could not have been ejected from the car, and might not have been injured. I hope his aunt can live with that knowledge.