Admittedly, “famous” might be a rather grandiose adjective to describe the rebooted Walker: Texas Ranger and Supernatural star. But CW actor Jared Padalecki says he is “on the mend” following a serious car wreck. Padalecki, who offered no details about the wreck, except to say that he was a passenger, said he hoped to get […]
Police have few clues as they search for a man driving a stolen flatbed who barrelled over a pedestrian and didn’t stop. The accident happened near the intersection of East 238th Street and White Plains Road. According to police, a man driving a stolen flatbed truck hit a pedestrian, causing “severe bodily trauma,” before he […]
Watching someone walk across the street might seem about as exciting as watching this. Yet way back in the day, pedestrianism was a very popular spectator sport. In 1809, about 10,000 people were on hand to see a Scotsman walk a mile an hour for 1,000 hours. Today, almost no one pays money to see […]
A 20-year-old Bensonhurst man is dead after he smacked into an abandoned, double-parked restaurant delivery truck on 86th Street in Gravesend. The wreck happened shortly after 4 a.m. in an area where multiple delivery trucks are often double-parked. It’s unclear whether the delivery truck driver was cited or not. The 20-year old man was already […]
To no one’s surprise, carriers and drivers overwhelmingly supported a rule change allowing truckers to conceal their driving records. The current rule requires drivers to report traffic tickets to carriers. In defense of its rollback, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration insisted that “This requirement is largely duplicative of a separate rule that requires each […]
The normally brutal traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge was even more brutal following a multi-vehicle collision that shut down the eastbound lanes for several hours and caused significant rubbernecking delays on the westbound side. Few details were available about the crash. Several vehicles were in several pieces on the bridge. A 30-year-old man, who was […]