traffic accidents

The driver remained at the scene and was charged with failure to yield and failure to use due care.

“It's defamation of character," says Dr. Elana Newman at the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia. "Not only have they lost this person, but the public presentation of their loved one is false."

Though "there is no criminality suspected at this time," the NYPD indicates that the investigation by the Accident Investigation Squad is continuing.

A pedestrian was struck dead by the driver of an M60 bus this morning in a horrifying accident in Harlem, less than 24 hours after another pedestrian was killed by a city bus in Flushing.

According to police the victim, a white male in his 30s, was dead at the scene. Because he ran a red light, and the driver "never saw him," no charges will be filed.

Witnesses told police that the man attempted to pass the truck making a right onto Gardner, when the truck's bumper hit the bike, sending the man under the vehicle where he was killed instantly.

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