Either newspapers don’t have most of their gory articles up online or Google is definitely one odd beast to figure out when it comes to searching for the actual stories of yesteryear.
In any event, this here is a photo of the connection from the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge to the Gowanus. The lanes to the left of the barricade are for western bound traffic to Manhattan, while the lane to the right is part of the eastern approach to the bridge.
It was right about here that an awful, awful accident took place in 1994, or perhaps 1995.
Here’s what I recall about it…
On the westbound side of traffic right around the spot of the orange cones, a passenger commuter van was moving along bringing a van full of people to their jobs.
Out of the blue, and in the freakiest of accidents, a car traveling eastbound towards the bridge got into an accident, went airborne, jumped the barrier and landed on top of the commuter van that had been traveling in the opposite direction!
Needless to say, and it doesn’t take a brain surgeon to figure this one out - multiple people met their fatal demise by way of flying car crashing onto moving commuter van.
I remember the S53 that I was taking to high school that day being EXTREMELY late since it was near impossible for the buses to cross the bridge while the accident scene was being rescued, and then investigated.
These sets of flowers are on the nearest light pole on the shoulder of the westbound lanes, and is the only brief glimpse of the gory accident that Google knows nothing of.
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