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The woman was impaled between a fence and an SUV when a driver drove onto the curb to avoid hitting another vehicle, Ida Siegal reports.

A woman who was impaled on a metal fence in a freak accident after an SUV jumped a curb and hit her on a Bronx sidewalk Friday has died, police said. Paulina Nrecaj, 59, was outside her Pelham Parkway apartment building on Bronxdale Avenue around 6:30 p.m. that night when cops say the SUV slammed into her and the side…

A pedestrian was hospitalized in critical condition Friday evening after an SUV slammed into the side of an apartment building in the Bronx, sending the woman into a metal fence, authorities said. Police said the driver lost control and jumped the curb on Bronxdale Avenue near Cruger Avenue in the Pelham Parkway section of the borough around 6:30 p.m. The…

The victims’ identities were not immediately released.

Two men in their 60s — a 67-year-old rabbi from New York and a 68-year-old man from New Jersey — died when a car heading the wrong way on the New York State Thruway slammed head-on into another vehicle early Tuesday, leaving twisted wreckage across the highway, according to authorities and colleagues. State Police responding to a crash on the…

Police are looking for a suspect who used a pricey car to steal a lot of cash.

The van was carrying factory workers back to New York City from an Amscan Distribution plant in Chester, Orange County, Sarah Wallace reports.

Four people died and another eight were hurt, some of them severely, when a shuttle van with a dozen passengers flipped over, authorities say. News 4’s Jessica Cunnington reports.

Four people — three of them Party City employees — died and another eight were hurt, some of them severely, when a shuttle van with a dozen aboard flipped over in the center median of New Jersey’s Palisades Interstate Parkway early Friday, authorities and the company said. Highway police responding to a call about a southbound incident in Englewood Cliffs…

Four people died and another eight were hurt, some of them severely, when a shuttle van with a dozen passengers flipped over in the center median of New Jersey’s Palisades Interstate Parkway early Friday, authorities say.

The NBC4 I-Team has new information about the car crash and fire that led to the death of Anne Heche. Fire Department records now show it took at least 45 minutes to get her out of a burning house in Mar Vista, and a lot of time passed before the rescue effort began. Eric Leonard reports on the NBC4 News...

The 9-year-old boy badly hurt in an alleged drunken driving crash on Long Island a week ago has died, Suffolk County police said over the weekend. Angel Salis was in the car with his father on the Long Island Expressway in Farmingville shortly before 2 a.m. Aug. 22 when cops say a man driving a BMW hit them in the…

The 9-year-old boy injured in a Long Island crash on Aug. 22 has died, police said.

A 28-year-old Brooklyn man faces a litany of charges for allegedly fleeing a traffic stop in Queens earlier this month and barreling into three pedestrians, including a mother and toddler she had been pushing in a stroller, prosecutors say. Tyshawn Baldwin was arraigned Wednesday on a 17-count complaint charging him with assault, reckless endangerment, unlawful fleeing a police officer, endangering…

Actor Anne Heche has died, nine days after she was injured in a fiery car crash.

A man is dead after driving his car into a barricade outside the U.S. Capitol Sunday and then shooting himself, according to the U.S. Capitol Police.

The Los Angeles Police Department has ended its investigation into Anne Heche’s car accident, when the actor crashed into a Los Angeles home on Aug. 5.

Fourteen people were hurt when a car slammed into an Irish pub, causing the building to catch fire in Arlington’s Courthouse neighborhood Friday evening.

New surveillance video shows the moment a driver plowed his SUV into three people, including a mother pushing her child in a stroller, while fleeing from police in Queens. NBC New York’s Adam Harding reports.

At least six people waiting in line for food were hurt when an SUV driver inadvertently accelerated and jumped a Bronx curb, slamming into a salon Tuesday afternoon, authorities say. Five of those hurt have serious injuries but are expected to be OK following the 12:15 p.m. accident at East 163rd Street and Prospect Avenue in the Longwood neighborhood, police…