LONG ISLAND CAR ACCIDENT
Woman, 24, charged with fatal hit-and-run

Long Island car accident kills wheelchair-bound veteran

December 9, 2008 – Bail was set at $150,000 yesterday for a Long Island woman accused of killing a veteran in a wheelchair while she was driving drunk, then fleeing the car accident.

The 24-year-old woman had a blood-alcohol level of .242 when she hit the man in Coram early Sunday, Newsday reported.

You may be the best driver in the world, and as sober as a judge, but it is the other party that will take you off the road. New York State, for example, recorded 1,333 traffic fatalities in 2007. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reports that 384 of those, or 29 percent, were attributed to alcohol-impaired drivers.

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Consider New York City. Five counties in the Big Apple – three on Long Island – are at the very top of the government’s list of state counties reporting automobile deaths. In 2007, the Top 5 counties in New York State reporting traffic deaths were: Suffolk County (167), Brooklyn (96), Nassau County (93), Queens (72), and Manhattan (58).

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LONG ISLAND CAR ACCIDENTWoman, 24, charged with fatal hit-and-run

LONG ISLAND CAR ACCIDENT
Woman, 24, charged with fatal hit-and-run