Traffic Accidents New York City

A picketer injured in a confrontation with a non-striking worker who was trying to drive into a New York Telephone Co. parking lot died Tuesday, a day on which the Communications Workers of America and NYNEX announced that informal talks would resume today. Edward Horgan, 34, died of head and neck injuries at Westchester County Medical Center on the 10th day of the strike by 189,000 union employees against four "Baby Bell" companies in 20 states and the nation's capital.

In a case that has spawned angry protests and focused attention on alcohol abuse among police, the city fired three officers Friday accused of drinking with veteran officer Joseph Gray before he allegedly killed three family members as he drove to work drunk. Gray, 40, pleaded not guilty to manslaughter and was released on $250,000 bail. Assistant Dist. Atty. Joseph Petrosino labeled him an "irresponsible, reckless individual" and declared: "He has disgraced himself and the department."

In a case that has spawned angry protests and focused attention on alcohol abuse among police, the city fired three officers Friday accused of drinking with veteran officer Joseph Gray before he allegedly killed three family members as he drove to work drunk. Gray, 40, pleaded not guilty to manslaughter and was released on $250,000 bail. Assistant Dist. Atty. Joseph Petrosino labeled him an "irresponsible, reckless individual" and declared: "He has disgraced himself and the department."

Seventeen police officers, including a precinct commander, have been disciplined for their actions in the hours before an allegedly drunken colleague was involved in a traffic collision that killed three pedestrians. Officer Joseph Gray, a 15-year veteran, was indicted Thursday by a grand jury on multiple counts of manslaughter and vehicular manslaughter, as well as drunken driving, speeding and running a red light.

Hundreds of mourners, demanding justice and shouting at police officers, marched Monday alongside a hearse carrying the coffin of a 7-year-old black child whose death set off rioting in a mixed black and Jewish neighborhood. The marchers moved tensely and slowly through Brooklyn for five miles, from a Baptist church at which funeral services were held for Gavin Cato to a cemetery where he was buried. As mourners marched, they shouted, "We want justice."

A grandson of President Harry S. Truman has died from head injuries sustained when he was knocked down by a taxi outside his mother's Manhattan home. William Wallace Daniel, 41, was the son of Truman's only child, novelist Margaret Truman, and former New York Times Managing Editor Clifton Daniel, who died in February. He was hit Saturday by a Yellow Cab on Park Avenue and died Monday at New York Hospital, his family said.

Violence erupted in Brooklyn's racially troubled Crown Heights neighborhood Wednesday for the third straight day as blacks continued their protests against police handling of a car accident in which a black child was killed by a Hasidic Jewish driver. Police said that 61 people, including 43 police officers, were injured. Eight of the policemen were struck by a shotgun blast fired from a roof. They were reported in good condition. Late in the evening, Mayor David N.

Prancing on a makeshift podium, an energetic woman in a black jumpsuit leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute Orchestra through a rehearsal of Act IV of Mozart's "Le Nozze di Figaro." Conductor Susan Davenny Wyner encourages her young charges with a wink, a smile or by telling yet another tale of operatic lore. Hard to believe that a few years ago Wyner's life was in shards.

The events were ordinary and by all odds they should have been separate. But that Friday night, a week before Christmas, they converged with the force of a bomb, scattering racial shrapnel throughout New York City.

A New York city bus careened onto the sidewalk and into a building, injuring 34 people. One person was in critical condition, 27 others were taken to area hospitals and six declined treatment, authorities said. After jumping a curb, the bus crashed into a Solomon Smith Barney building, then halted on 34th Street between Eighth and Ninth avenues. A Police Department employee was the lone pedestrian injured; the others were on the bus.

You don't have to travel to Australia to test your survival skills. Just try crossing Queens Boulevard in New York City. Since 1993, statistics show, 74 pedestrians have been killed attempting to navigate the broad and busy roadway, with its dozen lanes of traffic.

A grandson of President Harry S. Truman has died from head injuries sustained when he was knocked down by a taxi outside his mother's Manhattan home. William Wallace Daniel, 41, was the son of Truman's only child, novelist Margaret Truman, and former New York Times Managing Editor Clifton Daniel, who died in February. He was hit Saturday by a Yellow Cab on Park Avenue and died Monday at New York Hospital, his family said.

A New York city bus careened onto the sidewalk and into a building, injuring 34 people. One person was in critical condition, 27 others were taken to area hospitals and six declined treatment, authorities said. After jumping a curb, the bus crashed into a Solomon Smith Barney building, then halted on 34th Street between Eighth and Ninth avenues. A Police Department employee was the lone pedestrian injured; the others were on the bus.

An ambulance driver was charged with manslaughter Thursday after allegedly speeding through a red light on a nonemergency call and plowing into a car, killing two boys and their sister, ages 2 to 7, authorities said. The crash took place shortly before midnight Wednesday in Brooklyn. Anne Lamberson, 34, was arrested. Police said the ambulance was going 50 mph to 70 mph in a 30-mph zone.

The messenger who calls himself Kamakizee stood next to his mountain bike on Park Avenue on Friday, contemplating another day jousting with the police. "I'm one of the crazies," he admitted. "I'm one of the radical riders out here who doesn't give a damn. "A year ago I had static with the cops. They maced me and I didn't go down. I clocked one of the cops on the head. I tackled the other. I got 81 days in jail for it."

A 60-foot maple toppled in the wind and fell on a van carrying children and adults to minister-Rep. Floyd Flake's church school Thursday, crushing four girls to death. The girls--two of them sisters--were 10 to 12 years old. The driver, her husband and four other children suffered minor injuries. Winds were gusting at 50 mph as the van headed to the Allen Christian School in the Queens neighborhood of St. Albans.

Of the 643 people killed in New York City traffic accidents from 1984 through 1987, 18.2% had used cocaine within 48 hours of the accident, according to a study. Researchers said that of those 643, blood-alcohol and cocaine tests were available for 378 drivers, and 56% had used one or both. Dr. Peter M. Marzuk and his colleagues at Cornell University Medical College in New York City and at the New York City medical examiner's office studied the records of 905 traffic fatalities.

A car hit an ambulance racing to save a man who was thrown handcuffed from an apartment building early Saturday, injuring eight people, officials said. The original victim was dead on arrival at an area hospital. Police arrested two suspects on charges of second-degree murder in the man's death. No motive for the crime had been determined.

A 74-year-old woman lost control of her car and careened through a crowded Greenwich Village park, killing four people and injuring 24, authorities said. The car crashed down a walkway, sending bodies flying and crushing benches, wrought-iron fences and a concrete drinking fountain. Witness Roy Bank, 19, said the woman was traveling toward Washington Square Park on a street that ends there. Instead of turning, she hit the curb with a bang and drove right on through, Bank said.

A grand jury voted Thursday not to indict the Hasidic Jewish driver of a car that struck a black child and ignited last month's racial unrest in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, prosecutors said. The vote came about an hour after the driver, 22-year-old Yosef Lifsh, appeared before the panel in state Supreme Court to give his account. The panel, which had heard testimony for more than a week, was considering charges of criminally negligent homicide against Lifsh.