Mastic Man Pleads Not Guilty In Fatal Hit-And-Run
Preston Mimms of Mastic was charged with leaving the scene of the July 29, 2011, accident.
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Preston Mimms of Mastic was charged with leaving the scene of the July 29, 2011, accident.
Around 6:45 a.m. on Oct. 15, 2011, police said Peter Rodriguez crashed into a livery cab on the Long Island Expressway service road killing 37-year-old George Gibbons.
Thirteen-year-old Henry Garcia was riding his bike on 20th Avenue in Bensonhurst Saturday afternoon when police said he fell off his bike. That's when cops said the driver of a green SUV hit the teen and then took off.
Police said 13-year-old Henry Garcia was riding his bike on 20th Avenue in Bensonhurst and may have fallen off when he was run over by a green SUV.
Police are currently looking for a hit-and-run driver in the Bronx. A man and a woman, both in their 20s, were struck by a hit-and-run driver at 5:30 a.m. on Saturday. Both are in very critical condition at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx.
A devastated mother lashed out inside a New Jersey courtroom on Friday as the man who killed her daughter in Franklin Township learned his fate. She said his punishment does not go far enough.
Brian McGurk is charged with hitting and killing 57-year-old Clara Almazo while she was walking home from Mount Carmel Church with her 8-year-old grandson.
Prosecutors said on April 20, 2010, Kayla Gerdes was speeding and high on drugs when she lost control of the van she was driving and drove onto a Hempstead lawn, killing 69-year-old Dr. Rebecca Twine.
The driver who was killed in a head-on collision in Suffolk County on Saturday night, had previously been involved in two hit-and-run accidents, according to police.
Clara Almazo's life came to a horrible end on Holy Thursday just around the corner from Mount Carmel Church, where she had been observing the holiday with her 8-year-old grandson, Brian.
The family, which moved here from Mexico seeking a better life, is mourning the sudden death of a wife and mother of five children.
Police on Long Island are investigating the death of a 21-year-old man who was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver after his car had broken down.
A witness saw the accident, but could provide little detail on the car, which quickly fled the scene.
Two brothers have been arrested in connection with a hit-and-run crash that left a newspaper delivery truck driver seriously injured.
Police said Ellen Meany accidentally banged into the mirror of a parked car and fell off her bike before being crushed by a passing motorist.
Police have arrested a 34-year-old man who they say was drunk and driving without a license when he allegedly struck and killed a 69-year-old woman in East New York yesterday evening.
According to police, Ann used his car to mow down his estranged girlfriend 25-year-old Aena Hong Monday evening at the intersection of Anderson Avenue and Inwood Terrace in Fort Lee, N.J.
Charles J. Ann, 26, has been charged with murdering 25-year-old Aena Hong after police say he ran over Hong several times with his car.
Was it a deadly accident or a hit and run done on purpose? On Monday night, witnesses reported a horrifying scene -- a woman hit repeatedly by the same car. Now, police are searching for the driver.
Linda Demarest pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide and leaving the scene of an accident charges in the July 2010 crash in Buena Vista Township.
Police are still looking for the driver. With little to go on, police are hoping for a little luck, and maybe a call from someone who knows the driver.
Police are trying to identify a person seen in surveillance video just before a car involved in a hit-and-run days earlier, was set on fire.
Witnesses say the driver, a woman, ran a red light in Sunset Park Wednesday night. Her car slammed into the man near 50th Street and 6th Avenue.
Police said a white SUV traveling northbound slammed into one vehicle which then struck a third and fourth car near 84th Street shortly after 2 a.m.
John Pappias is scheduled to be arraigned at First District Court in Central Islip on January 15.
