drunk driver

Sixteen people have been injured, three critically, after a semitrailer collided with a school bus carrying a youth hockey team from Chicago in northern Indiana, police said. Investigators believe alcohol was a factor in the collision and police arrested the semitrailer driver whom they said was swerving and speeding before the crash in Warsaw in which one person was ejected…

Wheeled out to a thunderous applause, Ashley Diaz finally left a Staten Island hospital nearly two months after a drunk driver altered the course of the EMT’s life forever. Diaz was getting into her car, parked right outside her home, when an out-of-control driver slammed into the off-duty EMT back on Sept. 15. Her brother Kevin is a firefighter, and…

An unlicensed driver slammed her car into an off-duty EMT in a crash that not only cost that first responder her leg, but also her career. More than a month after the crash, the EMT is still battling back from the catastrophic injuries. NBC New York’s Ida Siegal reports.

A 28-year-old Queens man was arrested and charged in the death of Carlos Santiago, a father of three from Brooklyn. News 4’s Melissa Colorado reports.

A Long Island mother’s heartbreak was on full display after her 9-year-old son died in a car crash involving a suspected drunk driver, and now she is calling for the charges against the man to be upgraded.

A mom is mourning the loss of her son after he was killed by a suspected drunk driver on Long Island, Pei-Sze Cheng reports.

A judge ordered the maximum sentence for a convicted drunk driver on the wrong side of I-287 in Westchester two years ago. NBC New York’s Lynda Baquero reports.

A highway patrol officer is being called a hero after she used her cruiser to crash head-on into a suspected drunk driver and stop her from reaching hundreds of runners in Pinellas County, Florida.

New video shows the moment a pickup truck slammed into an SUV over the weekend, killing a 15-year-old girl. NBC New York’s Erica Byfield reports.

The girl who died was from Great Neck, officials said.

The suspected driver was arrested on charges of vehicular manslaughter and driving under the influence, police said.

A 15-year-old girl has died following a late-night crash on Long Island with a driver who police say was driving under the influence. Police in Nassau County said the teenager was among five passengers riding in an Audi SUV that crashed with the suspect’s vehicle around 11 p.m. Saturday in Woodmere. The SUV’s 38-year-old driver had critical injuries, and...

A suspected drunk driver drove into a crash scene early Monday morning on the Belt Parkway, running into a police cruiser and killing a Brooklyn man. The 35-year-old victim had stopped on the left side of the Belt Parkway after rear-ending another driver around 1 a.m., police say. Peter Tse was behind the wheel of a BMW i8 when he…

A 22-year-old Brooklyn man was allegedly intoxicated at double the legal limit when he ran a red light T-boned a Lyft driver in Queens early Sunday, forcing the rideshare vehicle through a nearby brick wall, prosecutors said Monday. The victim, a 48-year-old father of three identified as Mohammed Houssain, died. His passenger, who was in the backseat, suffered a broken…

Police say a Lyft driver died overnight in Queens after a drunk driver caused a serious crash and sent the rideshare vehicle through a brick wall. NBC New York’s Ida Siegal reports.

Police say a Lyft driver died overnight in Queens after a drunk driver caused a serious crash and sent the rideshare vehicle through a brick wall. NBC New York’s Myles Miller reports.

Police say a Lyft driver died overnight in Queens after a drunk driver caused a serious crash and sent the rideshare vehicle through a brick wall. Gas station video shows the moment the driver of a Ford Explorer shoots across Eliot Avenue in Maspeth around 3:50 a.m. and t-bones the car. The force of the impact sent the Lyft driver…

NBC New York’s Myles Miller reports.

A somber salute Monday for the NYPD officer hit and killed in the line of duty by an alleged drunk driver. NBC New York’s Greg Cergol reports.

A suspected drunk driver who slammed into a car on a Long Island highway, sending it careening across three lanes of traffic and into a tree, appeared in court Monday as the victims’ family grieved. NBC New York’s Greg Cergol reports.