On January 23, 2004, Jason Rhoades sustained fatal injuries when the vehicle he was driving slid across the roadway over a bridge on Interstate 81 in Syracuse, struck a snowbank packed against the concrete barrier guard at the edge of the bridge, and his car vaulted off the bridge to the road below.
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On June 18, 2005, Luisa Sanchez was walking across 163rd Street in the Bronx when the 28 year old woman was struck by a city sanitation truck.
Ms. Sanchez was found by the truck driver lying in the street behind his truck. She was bleeding from her ears, nose and the back of her head
On November 8, 2006, Ellen Mary McHugh was in the crosswalk on East Gun Hill Road at Bainbridge Avenue in the Bronx, when she was struck and killed by a left turning city bus.
This roadway has been called the most dangerous in the Bronx:
Mrs. McHugh, a 66 year old widow, was survived
On October 18, 2003, Maria Araujo was crossing the street with her three year old son Fernando in her arms. Just blocks from their home in Hempstead, in a crosswalk at Washington and Jackson Streets, Maria was struck in a crosswalk by a car that had collided with a county bus.
Here is the accident scene on
Theresa Capwell was 33 years old and in good health when she started experiencing abdominal pain. She was diagnosed with pancreatitis (an inflammation of the pancreas) and admitted to Westchester Medical Center on September 18, 2000.
Within five days of her hospital admission, Theresa suffered acute respiratory distress and she was placed on a ventilator.