Here in New York City, we often think of our police force and the admirable efforts they made with our fire department on 9/11 to save people’s lives. Our officers lay their lives on the line every day for our protection, which makes the tragic loss of an officer outside the line of duty bleak. In a recent car accident, an off duty New York City policeman was tragically killed. The officer was only 25-years-old and had only been on the force for a few years. He was driving on the Southern State Parkway when he was rear ended by another car. The driver of

Struck by two vehicles within a minute, a 48-year-old Englewood woman died on the roadway last month. She had been crossing the street when a northbound Chevy van hit her and threw her into the path of cars driving south. She was struck again by another car and, tragically, the dual car accident brought an untimely end to her life. The man driving the van is now in custody; he is a New York City man, age 52. The driver of the second car is yet unknown. The van’s driver had fled the scene and remained unidentified for a month. However, when he discovered that

A collision between two sports utility vehicles in New York turned into a fatal car crash, killing three people and injuring a 9-year-old boy. The car accident happened 90 miles northwest of New York City on a highway in rural upstate New York just after 11 a.m., on a Monday morning. An eastbound Ford Explorer crashed into a westbound GMC Jimmy, killing the 21-year-old male driver of the GMC. Police say a man and a woman in the Ford Explorer were ejected and pronounced dead at the scene. Police say a 9-year-old boy was rescued from the Ford Explorer by a passerby. The boy was

A fatal car crash killed three generations of New York City women last month in North Carolina. The 22-year-old daughter, who was driving, perished along with her 46-year-old mother and 71-year-old grandmother. Five other family members in the SUV were taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The driver apparently lost control when the back right tire blew out. The family was returning from a trip to Disney World when the fatal car crash occurred. Words cannot describe the grief the surviving family members must feel at such tragic losses. One thinks first of their recovery and then of hopes and prayers for their