Sep. 11, 2025 By Bill Parry A Queens grand jury indicted a Jamaica teenager for the killing of a 17-year-old and injuring others in a high-speed collision on the Cross Island Parkway in Bayside last October. Mohammad Sk, 19, of 87th Avenue in Jamaica, was arraigned on Sept. 10 on a 12-count indictment charging…
Sep. 10, 2025 By Bill Parry A Long Island motorcyclist was killed in a single-vehicle crash on the Van Wyck Expressway alongside Flushing Meadows Corona Park on the afternoon of Monday, Sept. 8. Police from the 110th Precinct responded to a 911 call of a crash near Exit 12B at the Long Island Expressway…
Sep. 5, 2025 By Bill Parry A Whitestone motorcyclist was killed after a collision with the driver of a Mini Cooper on Thursday, Sept. 4, according to the NYPD. Police say 21-year-old James Korakis, of 9th Avenue in Whitestone, was riding a BMW motorcycle northbound on the Cross Island Parkway service road near 157th…
Aug. 27, 2025 By Bill Parry A South Richmond Hill man was killed in a single-vehicle collision on the Cross Island Expressway near Fort Totten on Tuesday morning, according to the NYPD. Police say Bishinu Madray-Mootoo, 24, of 120th Street, was driving a 1999 BMW 323i northbound on the Cross Island Expressway near exit 31…
Aug. 12, 2025 By Bill Parry An elderly Sunnyside Gardens man was the driver who died in a horrific multi-vehicle chain-reaction collision in Astoria that killed two pedestrians on Tuesday morning, according to authorities. Andrei Coman, 84, of 48th Street, was identified on Wednesday night by the NYPD as the motorist who was behind…
Aug. 4, 2025 By Bill Parry A Springfield Gardens teenager was sentenced to 1 ⅓ to four years in prison for causing the death of another teen who was a passenger in the BMW he was driving in 2023 when he was just 16 years old. The teen’s parents were previously sentenced on endangering…
Jul. 28, 2025 By Bill Parry A motorcyclist from the Hallets Point section of Astoria was killed on the Long Island Expressway after he was thrown from his bike during a fatal collision in Corona on Thursday, July 24, according to authorities. Police say Kahyl Pena, 24, of 3rd Street in Astoria, was riding…
Jul. 23, 2025 By Bill Parry A Long Island man was sentenced to seven to 21 years in prison Wednesday for a fatal collision on the Long Island Expressway in Long Island City in November 2023, which left one of his passengers dead. Reginald Nash, 26, of Lincoln Avenue in Roosevelt, pleaded guilty in…
Apr. 1, 2025 By Bill Parry A Staten Island man was struck and killed by a van driver as he was exiting his vehicle in Woodhaven on Friday morning, and two other men were injured, one of them critically, during the chain reaction crash, police said Sunday. Police from the 102nd Precinct in Ozone…
Feb. 18, 2025 By Bill Parry A Bay Terrace man turned himself in at the 111th Precinct in Bayside after a Queens grand jury indicted him in connection to a fatal hit-and-run crash on the Whitestone Expressway that killed an MTA supervisor from Jackson Heights in February 2024. James Vennitti, 63, of Darren Drive,…