A 59-year-old woman crossing a street in Mineola was struck and killed by a vehicle, Nassau County police said.
The accident occurred on Mineola Boulevard near Grant Street, police said.
The driver, whose name was not immediately released, was arrested on a charge of leaving the scene, police said
Cops say the bad weather overnight appears to have played a role in at least one of two pedestrian accidents.
In the first accident, a man was hit by a Jeep in Wyandanch. Cops say the man, of Deer Park, was crossing Acorn Street near Straight Path road when he was hit. The driver of the Jeep says he couldn’t see after water from a puddle splashed over his windshield.
In the second, a woman was hit on Route 25A in Kings Park. Police say she was in the middle of the road when she was hit.
A Huntington man died after his car veered into oncoming traffic in West Hills and hit another car, Suffolk police said.
The 85 year old man was going north on Round Swamp Road near Vannina Place when he crossed Round Swamp Road and hit a car driven by a 51 year old woman from Huntington.
The two drivers were taken to Huntington Hospital where the elderly man was later pronounced dead, police said.
Police say a 25-year-old Syosset woman was struck and killed by a city sanitation truck while crossing a street in Brooklyn.
Police say it happened on Broadway near Driggs Avenue in the Williamsburg section of the borough. The woman, of Syosset, was taken to a hospital where she was pronounced dead.
Police say no crime is suspected. The investigation is continuing.
A 15-month-old girl who was not properly restrained in her car seat died in a single-car accident when the driver, her grandmother, lost control and the car flipped over several times in Farmingville, Suffolk police said.
The girl was ejected from the car, which rested on the grassy median of North Ocean Avenue, emergency responders said, and as she lay there Farmingville firefighters used the Jaws of Life to extricate her grandmother and the girl's mother from the front seat.
The child had head injuries and was declared dead at the scene, said a Sixth Squad Detective, one of the responders to the accident.
The driver and passenger, both of Mastic, were conscious and not seriously injured, police said. They were taken to Stony Brook University Medical Center.
The grandmother, mother and daughter were in a 2002 Mercury Mountaineer headed southbound on North Ocean Avenue, approaching Granny Road, when police said the accident happened. It was raining at the time. The toddler was in a car seat in the back seat. For hours, the crash closed North Ocean Avenue in both directions between Granny Road and Mooney Pond Road.
The stretch of North Ocean just north of Granny Road has been the scene of numerous accidents during times of heavy rain because of bad drainage, with vehicles hydroplaning and drivers losing control, said the second assistant chief of the Farmingville Fire Department, who was dispatched to the crash scene.
Cops say a 93-year-old woman was hit and killed while walking to church in Huntington Station.
Police say the woman was trying to cross New York Avenue when she was hit. The incident happened in front of St. Hugh's Church.
The woman was rushed to the hospital where she later died.
The victim's son said she went to church almost every day.
Suffolk County Police Fourth Squad detectives are investigating a single vehicle crash that killed a 47-year-old man in Ronkonkoma.
The man was traveling eastbound on Forest Court in Ronkonkoma when he apparently lost control of his 2008 Nissan Maxima. The Nissan struck a fence and then crashed into a home located at 5 East Drive, Ronkonkoma.
The 47 year old driver, of Locust Blvd., Ronkonkoma, was transported by Lakeland Ambulance Company to Stony Brook University Medical Center where he was pronounced dead. The residents of the home were not injured.
A tractor-trailer pulling out of a 7-Eleven parking lot in Valley Stream careened across a street and crashed into the side of a medical building sparking a gas leak. Nassau County police said the accident occurred on Franklin Avenue. It was not immediately clear if anyone was injured in the accident.
Volunteers from the Valley Stream Fire Department and two Nassau police ambulances were on scene.
Witnesses said the cab of the tractor-trailer penetrated the side of the building, home to Long Island Cardiology Associates.
In an action to recover damages for personal injuries,the plaintiffs appealed from an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (F. Rivera, J.), dated April 9, 2010, which granted the defendant's motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint on the ground that the plaintiff Ken Bangar did not sustain a serious injury within the meaning of Insurance Law § 5102(d). The Second Department reversed, on the law, and held that the defendant's motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint should have been denied.
The court held that the defendant failed to meet his prima facie burden of showing that the injured plaintiff did not sustain a serious injury within the meaning of Insurance Law § 5102(d) as a result of the subject accident (see Toure v Avis Rent A Car Sys., 98 NY2d 345; Gaddy v Eyler, 79 NYd 955, 956-657). In their bill of particulars, the plaintiffs alleged that the injured plaintiff had sustained a medically-determined injury or impairment of a nonpermanent nature which prevented him from performing substantially all of the material acts which constituted his usual and customary activities for not less than 90 days during the 180 days immediately following the subject accident. However, the defendant failed to show, prima facie, that the injured plaintiff did not sustain such an injury. In support of his motion, the defendant submitted the injured plaintiff's deposition testimony, which indicated that the injured plaintiff missed work for the first 110 days after the subject accident (see Takaroff v A.M. USA, Inc., 63 AD3d 1142, 1143; Shaw v Jalloh, 57 AD3d 647, 648; Ali v Rivera, 52 AD3d 445, 446; DeVille v Barry, 41 AD3d 763). Moreover, the defendant's orthopedist, who examined the injured plaintiff more than 14 months after the accident, did not relate any of his findings to the period of time immediately following the accident (see Cabey v Leon, 84 AD3d 1295, 1296; Mugno v Juran, 81 AD3d 908, 909;Lewis v John, 81 AD3d 904, 905; Takaroff v A.M. USA, Inc., 63 AD3d at 1143; Shaw v Jalloh, 57 AD3d at 648; DeVille v Barry, 41 AD3d at 763-764). The court held that since the defendant did not sustain his prima facie burden on his motion, it was unnecessary to determine whether the papers submitted by the plaintiffs in opposition were sufficient to raise a triable issue of fact (see Mugno v Juran, 81 AD2d at 909; Galofaro v Wylie, 78 AD3d 652, 653). [*2]Accordingly, the Appellate Division held that the Supreme Court should have denied the defendant's motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint.