Staten Island, New York Child Injury Lawyer Blog | Brooklyn Child Accident Attorney » child http://nyinjurylawupdateblog.com Insight and Commentary for Parents and Guardians about Child Injuries and Safety Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:33:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 14-year old Staten Island girl killed in car accident http://nyinjurylawupdateblog.com/14-year-old-staten-island-girl-killed-in-car-accident/ http://nyinjurylawupdateblog.com/14-year-old-staten-island-girl-killed-in-car-accident/#comments Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:42:38 +0000 Frank Dito http://nyinjurylawupdateblog.com/?p=128 Staten Island resident Regina Kriklivy, 14, was killed Sunday night on Route 80 in Roxbury Township, New Jersey, nj.com is reporting. Ms. Kriklivy was a passenger in the back seat of her family’s minivan and was ejected as it spun out of control across the interstate’s east bound lanes at around 7:30 p.m. The Staten Island Advance reported that

Regina Kriklivy was riding in the eastbound lanes when the minivan collided with a school van carrying 14 children from New Jersey, starting a chain of crashes that also involved a tractor-trailer.

Her father Oleg, 45, mother Larisa, 45 and brother Arthur, 18, were also riding in the vehicle but received non-life threatening injuries in the 7:34 a.m. crash. All eastbound lanes of I-80 were closed for nearly eight hours after the crash.

After the minivan collided with the van, it spun across the highway and slammed into a guard rail. Miss Kriklivy was ejected from the minivan when it hit the rail a second time after spinning around.

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