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A cyclist riding through the Bronx in the middle of the afternoon was struck and killed by the driver of Jeep who fled the area on foot. Hours after the 3 p.m. incident, police were still searching for the man responsible. Police said the 20-year-old cyclist was riding along Metcalf Avenue near East 172nd Street, in the Soundview section of…

Police are looking for the two suspects involved in a fatal crash in Brooklyn that killed one and left four others injured. Melissa Colorado reports.

One person was killed and four others were hurt following a crash in Brooklyn. News 4’s Chris Jose reports.

Part of a popular Poughkeepsie Restaurant collapsed after a tractor-trailer crashed through it. Lynda Baquero reports.

One person has died in a devastating tractor-trailer crash in Poughkeepsie that resulted in the collapse of a beloved restaurant, officials said. The impact of the crash left Junior’s Lounge off Salt Point Turnpike in pieces — two sides of the building came down as the force of the crash collapsed entire sections of the two-story business. Police said one…

A Father’s Day tragedy took the life of a 48-year-old New York man after a tree fell onto a pickup truck, state police say. The truck was driving along the Palisades Interstate Parkway Sunday afternoon, near mile marker 29.8 in Stony Point, when the tree suddenly fell, crushing the pickup and several people inside, authorities said. The tree’s impact...

A fallen tree smashed a pickup truck, injuring two of its passengers and killing a third, investigators said. News 4’s Adam Harding reports.

It was not immediately clear why the firefighter was on the boat and the cause of the collision.

A 16-year-old behind the wheel of a minivan died early Saturday morning after a chain-reaction crash caused the vehicle to rollover and ejected the driver, authorities said. Investigators said the minivan was traveling at a high rate of speed when it clipped a vehicle on Belt Parkway around 2 a.m. That’s when the teen driver lost control of the...

A driver faces charges after police say she dropped food and a drink in her car, lost control and hit four people in Annandale, Virginia, killing a woman.

Authorities in northern New Jersey announced charges including aggravated manslaughter against a Florida man on Thursday after he allegedly hit several pedestrians while driving a stolen car in the heart of downtown Paterson. One person was killed and five others were hospitalized after the wild scene unfolded Tuesday afternoon. According to the Passaic County prosecutor’s office, Harold Rasbin was...

New information regarding the deadly crash that happened this afternoon in Paterson, New Jersey. Checkey Beckford reports.

A 26-year-old Brooklyn man was sentenced to prison for causing a 2019 crash while driving under the influence and speeding that caused a motorcyclist’s death, initially telling police it was his girlfriend who was driving at the time of the crash, according to Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez. Christopher Diaz was sentenced to 3 1/2 to 10 years in prison…

Two people were killed overnight in a crash after police say the driver lost control and crashed in East Harlem. Officials say the crash happened just after midnight on Harlem River Drive near the 125th Street exit. The driver of a black Honda Accord reportedly lost control in the southbound lanes before striking the center divider, according to police. Witnesses,…

State police have identified the four people who died in a wrong-way crash on Interstate 84 in Hartford early Saturday morning. A Chevy Equinox was going in the wrong direction on I-84 East in the tunnel by Exit 51 in downtown Hartford around 2:45 a.m. when it collided head-on with a truck, according to state police. State police said 40-year-old…

Two men never made it home for Christmas after the driver of a box truck mounted a sidewalk and struck the two victims, killing a pedestrian and cyclist Friday morning on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Police said the 66-year-old driver hit a fire hydrant before striking Taurino Morales, 37, of New York, and Delfino Maceda, 46, of Queens, around 9:20…

A senior at the Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School has died and another teenager is injured after a crash in New Haven on Tuesday night. Officers were called to Sherman Avenue around 8:15 p.m. after getting a report of a crash. When police arrived, they said they found a vehicle that had crashed off the road. Emergency crews transported…

A man is dead after his car burst into flames at a toll booth in New Jersey.

Former Raiders wide receiver Henry Ruggs III received a stern talking-to from a Las Vegas judge but was allowed to remain on house arrest with a continuous alcohol monitor on one ankle and a GPS monitor on the other following a fatal crash he’s accused of causing by driving drunk

A Long Island man is behind bars Sunday following a fatal crash the previous night that resulted in the death of a 57-year-old woman, police said. Police in Suffolk County said 27-year-old Christian Lopez was driving while under the influence of drugs in Brentwood when he crashed a chain-reaction crash on Second Avenue around 9:40 p.m. Saturday. Lopez struck a…