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A deadly crash late Saturday night on Long Island killed five people and left a sixth hospitalized in critical condition. NBC New York’s Adam Harding reports.

A hot air balloon pilot died after he fell from it on the border of New Hampshire and Vermont Thursday. Four passengers survived.

Officials say the crash was “likely” due to the storm caused by Tropical Depression Claudette.

The woman accused of drunk driving as she struck an NYPD highway officer said she was “sorry” that he’s dead. Jessica Beauvais was arraigned Tuesday in a Queens courtroom on vehicular manslaughter charges and she admitted that she had been drinking and smoking marijuana before she got into her car earlier that morning. Gaby Acevedo reports.

At least five people were killed and dozens more injured when 100 vehicles were involved in a pile-up on I-35 in Fort Worth Thursday.

A father of four was killed in a car crash on Long Island while he was out delivering clothes for the needy. NBC New York’s Greg Cergol reports.

Four young men were killed along with a driver who crashed into their vehicle at high-speed in Yonkers on Tuesday night. Myles Miller reports.

A woman who was one of eight people injured Sunday afternoon when a man accidentally accelerated into an outdoor dining area in San Jose succumbed to her injuries the next day, police said.

A woman who was one of eight people injured Sunday afternoon when a man accidentally accelerated into an outdoor dining area in San Jose succumbed to her injuries the next day, police said.

Four people are dead and two others are hurt, one of them seriously, after a multi-vehicle collision on Long Island’s Southern State Parkway early Tuesday that apparently was caused by a wrong-way driver, New York State Police said.

Police say a car veered off the side of a road in southern New Jersey and crashed into a trailer parked in front of a residence, killing the driver. NJ.com reports that the crash happened at about 6:30 a.m. Saturday in Gloucester County’s Franklin Township. Police said the driver was pronounced dead at the scene. His name wasn’t released pending notification...

Two men and a woman died and another man was critically hurt in a wrong-way crash on the Grand Central Parkway, the NYPD said.  The crash happened in the westbound lanes of the parkway, near Exit 24 in Little Neck, around 5:30 a.m. Saturday, police said.  Police say a 39-year-old man was driving a Honda Accord east in the...

Three people died in a wrong-way crash on the Grand Central Parkway in Queens early Saturday morning, the NYPD said.

Two people died in a car crash in Newark early Saturday morning, police said. Ken Buffa reports.

Authorities say a car struck a tree on the median of a New Jersey road and burst into flames, killing a man and woman. Police said the crash occurred at about 4 a.m. Sunday on Route 22 near the Garden State Parkway intersection in Mountainside. Authorities said the car struck the tree in the center median of the highway and…

Bridgeport police have made an arrest in connection with a car crash that killed an attorney who helped troubled youth and was a leader of a local church. Keith Commerford, 50, of Bridgeport, was arrested Friday night and detained on $500,000 bond pending a court arraignment on Monday, the Connecticut Post reported. He is charged with second-degree manslaughter, driving under…

Three young women are dead after their car collided with a tractor-trailer in on Route 1 in Woodbridge, police said early Saturday.

Charges have been dropped against the off-duty New York City police officer who was involved in a crash that killed a 23-year-old woman, as well as seriously injuring another woman, when their driver blew through a stop sign, according to a law enforcement source in the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office. The two women were being driven by a man...

The off-duty police officer was initially charged with vehicular manslaughter and drinking and driving for an early morning crash in the Bronx that left a woman dead, but had the charges dropped Monday afternoon. The victim’s family is now demanding answers. NBC New York’s Erica Byfield reports.

A 23-year-old woman died and another woman was seriously hurt when their driver blew through a stop sign and collided with another car, police say. Myles Miller reports.