These cameras monitors commuters who travel to the city and Long Island. All images captured are reviewed by members of the company’s staff to identify whether or not a violation took place and whether it is able to be prosecuted.

The camera uses sensors that are embedded in the road at an intersection. A picture is taken of the rear of a car as well as video of the vehicle. If a violation is shown to be evident, a picture is taken. However, if the vehicle suddenly stops and doesn’t create the violation, then that is dismissed.

Some believe that the red-light camera creates a mindset that stimulates drivers to slam on their brakes at a yellow signal rather than risk being in the intersection when the light turns red. That sudden action, they say, can cause a rear-end accident.

What causes rear-end accidents are people not paying attention or driving too fast for conditions. Speeding through an intersection rather than stopping is not only wrong but dangerous.

An unsafe negligent act cause a serious accident.

The Commuting column appears Saturdays. Anthony P. Musso, a LaGrangeville resident, commuted to work in White Plains and Manhattan for years. Write him in care of the Poughkeepsie Journal, P.O. Box 1231, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601. Or email him at railcommute@aol.com.

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Police say the 49-year-old victim, a gastroenterologist, was believed to be heading to his practice in Fishkill when the accident occurred.

They say Qian Xie lost control of his SUV around 8 a.m. Thursday on the Taconic State Parkway in Putnam Valley.

Police say the road was slick from heavy rain.

The Journal News (http://bit.ly/oXjhvZ ) say the SUV struck a rock outcropping, careened across the road and struck the center guardrail. Police say he wasn’t injured and got out of the car. They say another vehicle rounded a slight bend and struck Xie while trying to avoid his car.

The investigation is continuing. No charges were filed.

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VERONA, NY (WSYR-TV) – State Police are investigating the exact cause of a crash on the bridge over the Erie Canal in Verona on Sunday. A Verona woman was killed in the accident and a man died the following day as a result of injuries he sustained.

According to investigators, Ellie Dombrowski, 59, was driving an older model convertible sports car northbound on Stoney Creek Road with a passenger, H. Carlton Reames, 68.

At about 2:30 p.m., police say Dombrowski was somehow distracted and drove toward the bridge over the canal.

The bridge has been closed to traffic since November.

There is a metal beam about three feet high stretching across the both the north and south ends of the bridge. The beams are welded to the rails on the bridge and other barricades are nearby as a sign that no traffic is allowed.

The car went under the southern beam, skidded along the guardrail, across the bridge and went under the northern beam until it came to a stop about 50 feet away.

The impact of the crash caused severe damage to the windshield. The top of the convertible was down.

The Dombrowski died in the crash. Reames, who was the passenger, was taken to Upstate Hospital in Syracuse. Reames was initially listed in critical condition, but he eventually succumbed to his wounds.

Witnesses heard the sound of metal scraping at about 2:30 p.m. but they thought it was a boat on the canal squeezing under the bridge.

The scene of the accident was discovered by a young boy who was walking in the area at about 4:15 p.m. When he saw the crash scene, he went to get his parents. The age of the boy is not known.

State Police are investigating.
2 dead after Verona car crash.

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LOWER EAST SIDE — Citing statistics that show more New Yorkers have been killed by cars than guns over the past decade, a group of transportation advocates gathered at one of Manhattan’s deadliest intersections to call for the implementation of more traffic-calming measures to reduce pedestrian fatalities.

A new report by the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy in partnership with Transportation Alternatives showed that 317 New Yorkers on average are killed in traffic-related incidents each year, in addition to the 3,774 who suffer life-altering injuries on average each year.

The report, called “Vision Zero,” also showed that speeding vehicles represent the chief factor in fatal crashes. Last month, a 51-year-old woman was struck and killed by a garbage truck near the intersection of Essex and Delancey streets, which Transportation Alternatives identified as the most dangerous on the East Side.

Read more: A study released by Transportation Alternatives calls for the city to put more attention on preventing crashes.

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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Two smashed up vehicles littered a Harlem street and police tape closed off a busy intersection following a fatal collision Thursday afternoon.

Police said it appears a livery car was turning left onto West 145th Street and collided with a pick-up truck that was heading south on Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard around 12:15 p.m.

The truck then went careening onto a sidewalk full of pedestrians, where it struck four of them.  Wheelchair-bound Leonia White, 89, was killed.

“I hear the people saying ‘the car is coming, the car is coming’ and they start to run,” one man told reporters including CBS 2′s Tony Aiello.

The name of the elderly victim, who lived three blocks away from the scene at the Drew Hamilton Houses, has not been released.

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Jury awards $5.5M to family of fireman who was electrocuted

A jury awarded $5.5 million to the family of a volunteer firefighter who was electrocuted during the aftermath of a fire. The matter dates to June 2006, when a fire struck the Long Island Cheeseburger restaurant in Lindenhurst. Several days later, while he was revisiting the premises, firefighter Michael Greene was electrocuted when he contacted the restaurant’s electric sign.

Greene’s family sued the restaurant and several contractors that had serviced the sign, alleging that the sign had not been properly grounded and that the restaurant ignored obvious indicators of a problem, such as the sign flickering.

The jury found that the restaurant was mostly to blame, but some liability was assigned to a company that had inspected the sign.

Greene v. 350 East Montauk Highway Corp.

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Bus riders on the $15 Chinatown-bound bus awoke in hell — jarred into a nightmare of screeching brakes, mangled metal and horrifying death.

“I saw people split open. It was awful,” one passenger named Victor recalled of yesterday’s catastrophic I-95 crash.

“Someone was crying for help . . . One man lost his hands. He was alive when the emergency people took him from the bus. People were crying. People were screaming . . . I saw a lot of death.”

Rescuers described an incredible scene of passengers crushed when the overturned bus skidded into the stanchion of a roadside sign that sliced into the vehicle “at face level.”

Chung Ninh, 59, recalled dangling in the air and clinging to his seat as the bus lurched onto its side. He and a few other passengers managed to crawl through the hatch in the roof of the bus — clawing through people covered in broken glass and trapped inside the wreckage.

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The cause of an early-morning bus crash that killed 14 people Saturday was unclear Sunday as investigators questioned the driver’s explanation that the coach was clipped by a tractor-trailer, causing it to swerve off Interstate 95 in the Bronx.

The 56-seat bus bound for Manhattan’s Chinatown neighborhood from the Mohegan Sun casino in Connecticut then smashed through a guardrail, skidded along the ground for 480 feet and flipped on its side before coming to a stop underneath a large, green highway sign. The signpost sliced off much of the bus’s roof.

Officials from the National Transportation Safety Board traveled to the crash scene to launch an investigation. As of late Sunday, the team had yet to speak with the bus driver, who is hospitalized, but planned to interview him after getting clearance from his doctors, said NTSB Vice Chairman Christopher Hart. He said investigators hoped that a black box that records data about how fast the bus was going and other factors would tell them if the driver was speeding. They also planned to look at footage from a camera pointed at passengers on the bus.

Mr. Hart said his team would also probe the bus’s owner, World Wide Tours of Greater New York Ltd.

“We also want to know what kind of training programs and what kind of fatigue management programs this company has,” he said.

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The Brooklyn-based company had been cited by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration for driver fatigue in February. In the last two years, its buses were involved in two accidents, each of which resulted in a single injury, according to agency records. Still, it received a “satisfactory” safety rating from inspectors. In some inspection categories, the company did better than average.

Saturday’s crash was one of the worst involving the low-fare buses that run between Chinatown and casinos and cities throughout the Northeast. But there have been numerous other accidents and close calls as the industry has grown in recent years.

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Amputation, paralysis and head, neck, back injury or brain damage are among catastrophic injuries resulting from such an accident.  Speak to an attorney in New York City that can help catastrophic accident victims fight back.

Catastrophic injuries, can be life-changing and financially devastating. Victims injured in the tour bus accident this Saturday have a legal right to seek just compensation for their medical bills, lost wages, and pain and suffering.

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