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Fifteen people were injured following a bus collision in the Edenwald section of The Bronx on Friday, April 10, EMS officials said.
An EMS spokesperson said the department received a call at 12.37 p.m. on Friday for a report of a motor vehicle collision with injuries at 3919 Baychester Avenue, located between Grenada Place and Strang Avenue.
They said fifteen civilian patients, fourteen with minor injuries and one with serious injuries, were involved. They said nine patients were transported to Jacobi Medical Center in Morris Park and six refused medical attention.
They said the condition or description of the patients is known. Norwood News reached out to the NYPD for further information on the incident and we were informed that the incident report is not yet available. We will share further information as we receive it.
We checked back with the NYPD a few hours later but they were busy dealing with some homicides and said they do not yet have a report on this incident.
On Tuesday, April 14, we were informed that the motor vehicle collision was reported to police on April 10 at around 12.36 p.m. and that a 21-year-old woman was driving a Honda SUV out of the Mini Mall at the location and made a left turn out of the lot. An NYPD spokesperson said, “Vehicle #1 was struck [by] Vehicle #2, [an] MTA bus operated by a 56-year-old male, attempting from the turning lane to make a left turn on 223 Street and Baychester Avenue.”
The spokesperson said the driver of Vehicle #1 (the Honda) was transported to a local hospital with minor injuries and the driver of the bus and 18 passengers were transported to local hospitals with minor injuries.
As reported, on Sunday, April 12, a car crashed into a wall at the East Fordham Road tunnel at Southern Boulevard in the Belmont section of The Bronx. On Saturday, April 11, as reported, a parked car was damaged in a hit and run incident on Johnson Avenue. On the same day, in Kingsbridge, an unoccupied, burning car on the Major Deegan Expressway was extinguished by the FDNY, police said.
Source: NYPD
Meanwhile, according to Instagram user, @kidelectrik, in a separate incident, a car was seen overturned and in flames also on the Major Deegan Expressway just before the RFK bridge, most likely in the Port Morris section of The Bronx on Saturday night, April 11. “Prayers go out to whoever was in that car,” @kidelectrick wrote.
Norwood News has reached out to the FDNY for more information on this incident and will share any updates we receive. The Port Morris car fire was also reported by users of the Citizens’ App and according to one post was on the Major Deegan northbound lane at East 138th Street.
Also in Kingsbridge, as reported, a woman who had been pinned into a vehicle after a two-vehicle crash at Bailey Avenue and West 238th Street was later extracted from the vehicle by emergency services.
Traffic accident statistics in the 52nd Precinct (which does not cover Edenwald) for the 28-day period ending April 5, compared to last year (left), and year-to-date traffic accidents in the 52nd Precinct as of April 5, compared to last year (right) are attached. This precinct covers some or all of Bedford Park, Fordham, Kingsbridge, Norwood, Bronx Park, and University Heights.
Source: NYPD
As reported, FDNY were called to East 204th Street and Mosholu Parkway on Saturday night, April 11, after a child got locked inside a car.
There were minor injuries reported after a two vehicle crash on the Grand Concourse in the Bedford Park section of The Bronx on March 30.
As reported, a 32-year-old man died following a bus-motorcycle collision outside Tracey Towers also in the Bedford Park section of The Bronx on Wednesday, April 8.
Prior to this, as reported, three people were hospitalized following a two-vehicle car crash on West Gun Hill Road in Norwood on March 17, St. Patrick’s Day, no injuries were reported following a three-vehicle crash on the Major Deegan Expressway on Sunday, March 22, while two people were hospitalized following a single-vehicle collision in Norwood on Jerome Avenue and Mosholu Parkway the same day.
Source: NYPD
With collision investigations, the NYPD handles all criminal aspects of the investigation, while NYC Department of Transportation (DOT) reviews the street design at the locations of such crashes.
Note: The data presented on this page are preliminary and subject to change. Reasons for this may include re-classifications of deaths later determined to be unrelated to traffic collision, or delays in determining a death from traffic collision that occurred on a date subsequent to the actual crash. A comparison of current and previous year data may not be valid or statistically meaningful.
Source: NYPD
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