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Calls by local leaders to ban non-essential helicopter flights out of Manhattan are being met with resistance by those in the industry, who insist flying is safe.

Six people were hurt when a fire truck and a vehicle collided on 171st Street and St. Nicholas Avenue early Sunday morning.

Three people were seriously injured when a car driven by Artisha Shivers, 26, of Ossining, collided with a cab on 125th Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard on Sept. 24, 2011, police said.

Luis Narvaez, 61, of the Upper West Side, was arrested for leaving the scene of a fatal accident in Queens on Sept. 15, 2011.

A van flipped over in an accident on East 70th Street and Third Avenue on Thursday afternoon, injuring four people.

Rosanny Marte, 22, her mother, Angela Marte, 46 and her grandmother Rosa Marte, 71, died in a crash in North Carolina Saturday afternoon.

A man's legs were pinned between two vehicles when a black TLC vehicle crashed into a row of parked cars on Second Avenue Thursday evening.

A cyclist was killed by a truck at the intersection of Chrystie and Delancey streets at roughly 5:30 p.m. Thursday, fire officials said.

A taxi crashed into scaffolding on Watts Street, near Varick Street on Sunday afternoon after being hit by another car, the driver said.

Motorcyclist Kastriot Prelaj, 22, of New Rochelle, was struck and killed by hit-run and drunk drivers on 12th Avenue and 46th Street early Saturday morning, police said.

A van drove into Harlem Meer in Central Park, near 106th Street Saturday afternoon. 

Faulty brakes caused the driver to swerve onto a sidewalk near East 30th Street and Third Avenue on Thursday.

A 68-year-old motorcyclist was critically injured after he rear-ended a car on the Henry Hudson Parkway Saturday night, police said.

Simone Walters, 44, of East Harlem, allegedly hit and killed Robert Bond, 53, at Seventh Avenue and 119th Street Thursday night.

A 12-year-old boy riding a bike near 78th Street and the FDR Drive Thursday was in critical condition after being hit by a car, FDNY officials said.