http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/05/14/2011-05-14_volkswagen_crash_at_queensboro_bridge_leaves_2_injured_third_vw_crash_at_same_sp.html
A Volkswagen flew off a dangerous Queensboro Bridge exit ramp Saturday morning, injuring two people in the same spot where two other Volkswagen crashes have occurred in the past two months, police said.
The two male passengers suffered minor injuries when their gray Volkswagen GTI hatchback caught air off the bridge exit ramp about 6 a.m, accordingt to cops.
The hatchback slammed into a concrete barrier and skidded into a second, which the city Department of Transportation recently installed as a safety measure following the two previous crashes, which left a man dead and two others hurt.
After plowing through some scaffolding, the totaled hatchback landed atop a livery cab, witnesses said.
Two months ago, same building:
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In a chilling echo of a tragedy less than two weeks ago, a horrific high-speed crash severed the left arm of a Volkswagen driver who lost control on a Queensboro Bridge exit ramp yesterday -- and store owners whose shops were smashed in both incidents are demanding the city quickly fix the "death trap" site.
The early-morning crash left the 2006 Volkswagen Jetta's passenger, Beatriz Rodriguez, 40, clinging to life with severe head trauma -- just nine days after the wee-hour smash-up of a 2007 Volkswagen Rabbit that killed 68-year-old pedestrian Anthony Buscemi.
Palacio's Jetta crashed into the front of two businesses on Queens Plaza South near the corner of Crescent Street - Villa de Beaute hair salon and Espinal Caribbean Restaurant II.
Narinber Singh, who owns a nearby cafe and rushed to the scene after the crash, said, "I came and they were pulling people out of the car, a girl and a guy. The guy was just screaming."
And two weeks before that, same stores:
A car coming off the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge jumped a curb and killed a 68-year-old cabbie on the way to pick up his taxi in Queens early Monday, cops said.
Anthony Buscemi was on the sidewalk in front of the Villa de Beaute hair salon in Long Island City about 4 a.m. when a car veered from the off-ramp and struck him, cops said. He died at the scene.
"It was a horror movie - pools of blood running onto the street," said carpenter Yama Dastagirzada, 41, of Far Rockaway, who was the first person to come upon the wreck.
Cops said the 35-year-old driver, Grant Riddell, lost an arm and was taken to Bellevue Hospital. His 31-year-old passenger, Melissa Cohen, was taken to New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell. Both were in stable condition and expected to live.
A police source said Riddell tested negative for drugs and alcohol. He lost control of the car, a red four-door 2007 Volkswagen, police said and accidentally struck Riddell, who was walking to the garage to get his taxi to start work.