An off-duty police officer driving south in the northbound lane of the New York State Thruway this morning struck another vehicle head-on, killing himself and the other driver, NBC reports.

NBC New York released horrifying surveillance footage today of an SUV slamming a 12-year-old boy on his bike into a Bronx storefront. The boy, Abraham Al-Saidi, somehow escaped with a just a broken leg and arm.

Joseph H. Carl was driving home from a bar in Gainesville, Fla. Tuesday when he rear-ended a car that was stopped at a red light. Drunk and enraged, he got out of his pickup truck and began banging on the windows of the vehicle he'd just hit. If only he'd remembered to put it in park first.

Bride-to-be Collette Moreno, 26, died in a car crash on the way to her bachelorette party this weekend, KCTV reports. Moreno's best friend, Ashley Theobald, was driving. Moreno (pictured above, left) took a selfie just before the crash.

Four people were killed in a car crash in Astoria, Queens on Friday night. The group had been driving back from a birthday celebration when their car hit a curb and flipped into the East River. Two men and two women were pulled from Steinway Creek after being trapped in the car for more than half an hour.

A car crash that claimed the lives of five California teens could have killed six, but Tamer Mosallam's father refused to let him go on the road trip because he had to study for a test.

An infant in Russia came thisclose to getting crush beneath the wheels of a truck after being tossed onto the icy pavement following a collision between her family's Mitsubishi and a big rig.

We can think of so many reasons why you should never, ever abuse your wife while she's driving (or engaging in any other activity, really), but here's a very good, common-sense one: You might cause a fatal accident. Fatal to you!

A Phoenix man became trapped inside his SUV on Thursday after he lost control of the vehicle, causing it to roll over and strike a utility pole. In the process, the driver rear-ended another vehicle driven by a man named George Lindell, who later described the events to local Fox affiliate KSAZ-TV in this amazing…

Police have released the findings from their investigation into the violent, fiery death by car crash of Jackass star Ryan Dunn and passenger Zachary Hartwell: Dunn, who was driving, had a blood alcohol content was 0.196, more than double Pennsylvania's legal limit of 0.08. His Porsche was traveling between 132 and…

Last night on Sarah Palin's Alaska, the Palins decided that middle daughter and noted homophobe Willow should try driving. So they threw her behind the wheel of a stock car and made her race with Todd. Inevitably, she crashed.

Behold! This teeny-tiny roe deer's mother died in a car crash, but moments after mama's death, little baby Bambi struggled out of the womb and survived. It'd be creepy as hell if the result weren't so adorable. [Daily Mail] Updated!

Spotted at 28th Street and Park Avenue last night: Actor Liev Schreiber hopping out of his car to chat with the NYPD after an apparent ding with a truck. A citizen paparazzo hid behind a scaffold and snapped a pic.

Biden's motorcade was in yet another accident late Sunday, this time in Vancouver. Skating champ Peggy Fleming and bobsled star Vonetta Flowers sustained "minor injuries." From now on, let's just roll him around in a wad of bubble wrap. [NYT]

Peaches' "IDGAF crew" (that's "I Don't Give a Fuck" to the uninitiated) were "speeding like I have never, ever witnessed" when they crashed their car. Just in case there is a lawsuit later, Peaches thoughtfully recorded their carelessness on Twitter.

The vice president's motorcade was in a midtown Manhattan crash last night, their third in one week (three means trend), one of which caused a fatality.

Joerg Haider, the extreme right wing Austrian politician who once said the Nazis had "an orderly employment policy" and referred to the concentration camps as "the punishment camps of National Socialism," died in a car crash last night. He was 58. "Haider was pronounced dead in a hospital shortly after his Volkswagen…