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Crashes Between Emergency Vehicles & Passenger Vehicles in Manhattan Collisions between a passenger car and fire trucks, ambulances, police cruisers or other emergency vehicles can cause devastating injuries. These emergency vehicles are racing to the scene of an accident and the driver’s adrenaline is rushing as they speed toward their destination. In doing so, they may inadvertently collide with an NYC bicyclist, motorcyclist, trucker or pedestrian and cause an accident. What are the Causes of Collisions Between Pedestrians and Emergency Vehicles? If you speak to a Manhattan Pedestrian Accident...

While all roadway accidents involving tractor-trailers can be dangerous, few are as frightening as a jackknife big-rig crash. In this scenario, the trailer and the cab (the part where the driver sits) are facing different directions and the big-rig may even flip over. When a tractor-trailer is stretched out over the roadway, there is limited amount of time to react and the potential for multi-car pile-ups and rear end accidents is significant. What is a Jackknife Accident? Many times you may sit in traffic for very long periods of...

You get rear-ended by another vehicle. You feel a little sore, but continue on with your day. After all, you’re not that injured. You’re pretty sure you’ll feel better the next day. Days go by and things don’t improve. You finally see a doctor several weeks later and you are diagnosed with whiplash and back injuries. All you have to do is let the insurance company know and they’ll pay for your medical bills, right? Not necessarily. That delay in treatment just harmed your case. The insurance company can...

If you walk the streets, or hopefully the sidewalks, of Manhattan, you will see people walking around and staring down at their iPhone, BlackBerry or other smart phone device. They are not looking straight ahead; they are not paying attention to their surroundings and they may walk straight into you as they keep their eyes glued to their smartphone with their headphones on too. These people are so distracted by their phones and their music that they enter intersections with vehicular traffic without even raising their eyes to see...

A motorist is zipping along the roadway, listening to their favorite song and singing along; daydreaming, or simply thinking about something else, when suddenly it hits them! They missed their exit or the street they were supposed to have turned down. No problem, just bang a u-turn, right? Well, actually, not so fast, because uturns are one of the most dangerous maneuvers an automobile driver can make and u-turns contribute to thousands of automobile, cycle and pedestrian accidents each year. Who is at Fault in a U-Turn Accident? Most...

Each weekday in Manhattan parents throughout the City of New York place their children on school buses and trust that school bus drivers will treat their children with the utmost care – as precious cargo. However, there are many different things that can go wrong. For example, a school bus driver’s error while operating the school bus in Manhattan may cause an accident.  Additionally, children are often times full of energy and become rowdy on the bus which may cause the school bus driver to be distracted, leading to...