One mother loses her 23-year-old son and another mom's heart is broken when her three-year-old daughter is killed on a New York City street. The tie that binds the women together: tragic pedestrian accidents.
Local fire director hits three kids in crosswalk
His job is to help keep the residents of his community safe, but an area fire director has a record of endangering people when he’s behind the wheel of a vehicle, NBC New York reports. The man recently struck three children in a crosswalk, breaking the leg of one of the two 14-year-old girls crossing the street. He also hit a 6-year-old boy with the SUV owned by the city of New Brunswick.
In second trimester, crash risk rises for pregnant women
With pregnancy there are often a variety of physical and emotional phases that come and go. According to a Reuters Health report filed in New York, a new study indicates that sometimes those changes in the pregnant woman result in a form of distracted driving that can result in car accidents.
New York City car accident kills 9-year-old girl
"She was a rambunctious 9-year-old," said the girl's mother. "She loved to dance, she wanted to be a pediatrician." All of the life and energy in that little girl came to an end this past Sunday as she left a New York City church with a friend and the friend's mom. The car they were in was slammed by a minivan driven by a man fleeing a hit-and-run accident.
