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A 5-year-old boy has died in a tragic hit-and-run auto accident in Queens when two teenagers drag racing in their car hit the sport utility vehicle the boy was riding in, according to a CBS News report. The article states the boy, Jordan McLean, was ejected from his aunt’s SUV after the collision occurred. Jordan’s mother, who was also a passenger in the vehicle, suffered injuries and is recovering in a local hospital, according to the report.

Police are now searching for two teenagers who they believe caused the fatal accident, which happened at the intersection of 109th Avenue and 164th Place in Jamaica. To worsen matters, many neighbors say that this accident was nothing out of the ordinary and that street racing is something that happens all the time in this neighborhood. According to Jordan’s aunt, who was interviewed by the TV station, there were two cars racing down the street and one of them, a BMW, hit the SUV. Police say the teens abandoned their totaled vehicle and fled the scene of the accident.

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Federal officials are investigating a Plainfield Township workplace accident which killed 60-year-old William H. Edwards, a Monroe County man. According to a news report in The Express Times, Edwards suffered from head trauma after a machine he was working on at RPM Recycling gave way and broke landing on his head. Edwards reportedly died on the scene.

Although township police call it an “unfortunate accident,” federal officials from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, who were notified soon after the accident as per procedure, are investigating the fatal accident. According to the report, another worker was helping Edwards mount a sorting tray on a steel recycling machine when a weld broke causing the tray to hit Edwards on the head. The other worker escaped without any injuries.

OSHA has begun its investigation and will have six months to determine the cause and circumstances of the workers comp accident. According to a department spokeswoman, investigators will also examine whether federal occupational safety and health laws were violated.

The federal investigators are likely to look into different aspects of this incident. They may inspect the machinery or equipment at the recycling plant to see if they are being properly maintained and serviced. They may look into whether the factory managers knew that this particular machinery was malfunctioning and/or if it had malfunctioned in the past. Investigators could also look into whether the worker in question and others had adequate training to operate the equipment or machine in question.

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The owner of a pit-bull that attacked and bit five people in Parsippany is asking the court to spare his dog saying that the dog attack outside a public library was provoked, the New Jersey Star Ledger reports. The owner also told the municipal judge he was sorry about the injuries his dog caused and that he would build a fence in the interest of public safety to keep the pit-bull within his property on Lake Hiawatha.

The dog owner, Ricardo Cotto, appeared in court to plead not guilty to three charges stemming from the April 2 new jersey pit-bull attacks. The victims supposedly suffered moderate bite injuries and were treated and released from the hospital. Cotto told the judge that the dog attack was not his pit-bull’s fault, but that of the passers by who provoked the animal.

But the victims tell a horrifyingly different story. One of the victims, 53-year-old Niculae Tudorache described the attack to the newspaper saying how he had tried to pull the dog off another victim only to have the pit-bull bite him on his leg before attacking his 13-year-old daughter.

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Three Roseto residents were injured in a Blairstown Township auto accident after an unidentified driver swerved across a double yellow line and forced them off the road, according to an article in the Express Times. The unknown driver, reportedly traveling in a silver-colored vehicle, caused Linda Piperato to go off the road and strike a road sign and utility pole, the article states.

Piperato, her 36-year-old son Jerome and her 41-year-old daughter, Robyn, were all transported to local hospitals following the accident. They all suffered injuries, but the report does not say how serious those injuries were. Anyone with information about this auto accident and subsequent injury is asked to call Officer Nicholas Falcicehio at 908-362-7499.

Officials are obviously looking for the driver in the silver car who caused this unfortunate new jersey car accident. Eyewitness reports are absolutely important in these accident cases where there have been injuries and damages caused. The first thing an auto accident victim must do after a crash is to seek immediate medical attention. Even minor or moderate injuries, which don’t appear serious, must be looked at and treated right away so that the situation doesn’t get worse.

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