Man Seriously Injured In Long Island Crash Man Seriously Injured In Long Island Crash
Man Seriously Injured In Long Island Crash A Long Island man suffered serious injuries in a crash after he allegedly drove through a red light and struck a car. The Suffolk County Police Department reported that the two-vehicle crash happened in Bay Shore at about 9:45 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 21. A 24-year-old Brentwood man was driving a 2011 Nissan Altima for Lyft when he stopped the car at a traffic light facing east in the left turn lane on Spur Drive South, according to police. Police said 2007 Dodge Ram, driven by a 32-year-old Bay Shore man, disregarded the red light and struck the Nissan. The Dodge overturned and rolled a nu…
COVID-19 Vaccinated? Here’s All The Free Stuff You Can Get In Pennsylvania COVID-19 Vaccinated? Here’s All The Free Stuff You Can Get In Pennsylvania
Covid-19 Vaccinated? Here’s All The Free Stuff You Can Get In Pennsylvania Many interesting incentives are being offered if you get vaccinated; here are a few available to people with a vaccination card in Pennsylvania: Krispy Kreme You can get one free doughnut a day when you show your vaccination card at any US Krispy Kreme, according to the company website. The card must show at least one COVID-19 vaccine shot to qualify. The order must be placed in-store. No purchase is necessary to get your free doughnut. White Castle Through May 31, White Castle is offering free dessert-on-a-stick to anyone with proof they have received a COVID vaccine. White Castle offer…
COVID-19: Target Paying Workers To Get Vaccines COVID-19: Target Paying Workers To Get Vaccines
Covid-19: Target Paying Workers To Get Vaccines Target has become the latest retail grocer to pay employees to get COVID-19 vaccinated. Target's corporate office said on Wednesday, Feb. 10 that it would provide hourly employees up to four hours of pay (two hours per each vaccine dose) to get vaccinated. The retailer will also arrange for free Lyft rides (up to $15 each way) to get employees to vaccination centers. “Taking care of our team has been at the heart of every decision we’ve made since the coronavirus started, and this point in the pandemic is no different,” said Target's Chief Human Resources Officer Melissa Kremer in a stateme…
Hackensack PD: Drug-Dealing Lyft Driver With Stolen Gun Charged With Endangering Daughter, 3 Hackensack PD: Drug-Dealing Lyft Driver With Stolen Gun Charged With Endangering Daughter, 3
Hackensack PD: Drug-Dealing Lyft Driver With Stolen Gun Charged With Endangering Daughter, 3 A Lyft driver from Hackensack with a 3-year-old daughter was arrested with a stolen handgun, three pounds of pot and more than $35,000 in proceeds after police learned that he’d been selling drugs near a local school, authorities said. It began after Narcotics Bureau Detective Sgt. John Dalton stopped Robinson Jeanbaptiste, 36, and found a passenger from New York City in the vehicle carrying five pounds of pot, Detective Capt. Darrin DeWitt said. Armed with a search warrant, detectives summoned a Bergen County SWAT team and raided Jeanbaptiste’s luxury apartment on Friday, DeWitt said. Th…
DA: Chester County, PA, Mother Faces Abuse Charges For 'Child Torture' DA: Chester County, PA, Mother Faces Abuse Charges For 'Child Torture'
DA: Chester County, PA, Mother Faces Abuse Charges For 'Child Torture' A 31-year-old mother from Pennsylvania faces child abuse charges related to the brutal beating of her 9-year-old daughter, authorities said. Julianne Lewis knew about and took part in the beating of her daughter at their Westtown Township home, according to the Chester County District Attorney’s Office. Doctors say the girl suffered severe brain damage, according to prosecutors. Lewis’ 34-year-old boyfriend, Dimitrios Moscharis, was arrested earlier. He’s facing attempted homicide charges in the beating that left the girl unconscious, according to the Chester County D.A. and earlier news r…
'Sami's Law' Requires Signs On Uber, Lyft Vehicles To Protect NJ Riders 'Sami's Law' Requires Signs On Uber, Lyft Vehicles To Protect NJ Riders
'Sami's Law' Requires Signs On Uber, Lyft Vehicles To Protect NJ Riders New Jersey will soon require signs, QR codes and placards on Uber, Lyft and other ride-sharing vehicles to protect passengers from getting into the wrong car. “Sami’s Law” was named after Samantha “Sami” Josephson, a 21-year-old University of South Carolina student from Robbinsville who was kidnapped and stabbed to death in Columbia, SC in March 2019 by a man she mistook for an Uber driver. New Jersey’s Motor Vehicle Commission Board on Thursday approved the measure, which takes effect once it’s published in the state register. The law will require rideshare vehicles to have a lighted or r…
Englewood PD: Lyft Driver Outsmarts Drunken Repeat Offender Trying To Steal Vehicle Englewood PD: Lyft Driver Outsmarts Drunken Repeat Offender Trying To Steal Vehicle
Englewood PD: Lyft Driver Outsmarts Drunken Repeat Offender Trying To Steal Vehicle A quick-thinking Lyft driver hit the emergency brake after a drunken passenger with a history of assaults got behind the wheel, said police who chased down the thief. The driver told police he’d picked up Cesar Mesa, 64, of from Hackensack and took him to an address on West Linden Avenue in Englewood shortly before 4 a.m. Saturday, Englewood Deputy Police Chief Gregory Halstead said. When they got there, Halstead said, a heavily intoxicated Mesa refused to get out while arguing with him, the driver told police. The driver said he opened a door to the back seat of his Toyota Camry, shoved…
Leonia Police Captain Nabs Queens Driver Trying To Catch Lyft After Pursuit, Crash Leonia Police Captain Nabs Queens Driver Trying To Catch Lyft After Pursuit, Crash
Leonia Police Captain Nabs Queens Driver Trying To Catch Lyft After Pursuit, Crash A Queens driver who crashed a brand-new Mercedes while trying to elude police Wednesday morning in Leonia was nabbed by a borough captain as he tried getting into a Lyft. It began when Officer Nolan Stendor tried pulling over the sedan after it illegally passed another vehicle on Broad Avenue shortly after 9:30 a.m. The driver, identified as Osvaldo Leader-George stopped on Westview Avenue as Stendor pulled up, Capt. Scott Tamagny said. He then quickly got back into the Mercedes and sped away, Tamagny said. The sedan hit a parked car as Leader-George turned onto Glenwood Avenue, but he k…
VIDEO: Off-Duty NYPD Hero Rescues Man Trying To Jump From Bayonne Bridge VIDEO: Off-Duty NYPD Hero Rescues Man Trying To Jump From Bayonne Bridge
Video: Off-Duty Nypd Hero Rescues Man Trying To Jump From Bayonne Bridge Dramatic video shows an off-duty NYPD officer saving a man trying to jump from the Bayonne Bridge. Police Officer Cory Pilzer was on the bridge walkway with his family this past Sunday when he spotted the 22-year-old man starting to climb the suicide prevention fence, the NYPD said. Pilzer bolted toward the despondent man, jumped and yanked him down by the waistband. They held onto him for uniformed Port Authority police officers, who took the man to Richmond University Medical Center on Staten Island. “Always out there. Always protecting — even off-duty!," NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea t…
Jersey City Dad Launches Kid-Friendly Ride Share Service Jersey City Dad Launches Kid-Friendly Ride Share Service
Jersey City Dad Launches Kid-Friendly Ride Share Service Toward the end of the 2019 school year, Jersey City father Norbert Sygdziak got a phone call from his son’s school district about an “unnerving event” that would require new bus arrangements. The call prompted Sygdziak to think seriously about school bus safety. He ultimately left his 19-year career in the legal industry to launch and take on a CEO role at RideAlong -- a child-oriented ride-share service with Jersey City native, Fateen Reid. "Despite all the advantages we have as a society, most parents are still forced to place their children on yellow school buses with little to no info…
Man Allegedly Breaks Window Of Lyft Vehicle After Driver Refuses Ride In Greenwich Man Allegedly Breaks Window Of Lyft Vehicle After Driver Refuses Ride In Greenwich
Man Allegedly Breaks Window Of Lyft Vehicle After Driver Refuses Ride In Greenwich A 57-year-old Greenwich man was arrested for allegedly throwing rocks at a Lyft car shattering the back window after the driver refused them a ride. Andrew Herz was arrested on Sunday, Jan. 5 after Greenwich Police responded to Flower Lane after the Lyft driver called police to report Herz had shattered his back window, Greenwich Police said. An investigation by police found that Herz engaged in a verbal argument with the driver after the driver refused to provide him service, police said. Herz then allegedly picked up loose gravel from his driveway and threw it at the rear of the Lyft dri…
KIDZ BOP KAREN: The Internet Is Loving This Edgewater Woman's Bizarre Road Rage Encounter KIDZ BOP KAREN: The Internet Is Loving This Edgewater Woman's Bizarre Road Rage Encounter
Kidz BOP Karen: The Internet Is Loving This Edgewater Woman's Bizarre Road Rage Encounter A video recording taken by an Edgewater-bound Lyft passenger has gone viral. Chelsea Klein, 29, was in the back seat of the vehicle stopped on New York City's West Side Highway when a woman forced her head inside the car and began yelling at the Lyft driver, several media outlets reported. Klein -- who wasn't immediately available to speak when Daily Voice reached out Thursday afternoon -- got it all on camera. "She thinks it's cute that her driver almost hit my kids, and she thinks she needs to take a video of it," the woman dubbed "Kidz Bop Karen" said into Klein's cell phone. Chels…