Personal Injury Law

New York Delivery Truck Accident Kills 2 Children

Hayley Ng, 4, and Diego Martinez, 3, died in a Manhattan auto versus pedestrian accident that occurred when an unoccupied delivery van hit a group of children, reports The Blade in a recent article. A third child was seriously injured and 14 other children were hospitalized with minor injuries, police said. Preliminary investigations showed the truck?s driver had double-parked to make a delivery and left the vehicle believing the shift lever to be in park.

Tragically, the lever turned out to have been in reverse and this caused the van to move backward and jump a curb before running down the children. Apparently, the children, who belonged to the Red Apple Child Development Center, were returning from a trip to the Chatham Square branch of the New York Public Library when the collision happened in Chinatown?s commercial area.

Full post as published by New York Injury Talk Blog on February 23, 2009 (boomark / email).