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Under Mayor Bill de Blassio's plan to eliminate traffic fatalities, known as Vision Zero, the failure of motor vehicle drivers to yield to pedestrians is now a criminal offense in New York City. However, prosecuting drivers who kill or injure pedestrians may become...
The legislation behind New York's "Vision Zero" has been written with the blood of victims like Kenny Valette. Valette, a 20-year-old man from the Bronx, was fatally struck by a tractor-trailer last evening. Valette was crossing Webster Avenue near E. 174th St. when...
According to traffic data statistics released by the New York Police Department (NYPD), 12 people died in the five boroughs of New York City as a result of motor vehicle accidents. Of these 12, one was a driver, one a passenger and the other 10 were pedestrians....
A new initiative is focused on making it easier and safer to get from Manhattan to the Bronx using one of the 11 bridges that cross the Harlem River. Walkers and bikers face many hurdles when trying cross the river from either side. Vehicles come off the bridges too...
A Nassau County girl with Down Syndrome was killed by a hit-and-run driver early Sunday morning. She was attempting to cross the Hempstead Turnpike, a six-lane highway, possibly in an effort to visit her grandfather a few miles away in Hicksville. She was struck by a...
A New York City television station's investigative team found that there were more alcohol-related crashes in Long Island's Suffolk County than in any other county in New York State. Channel 4's I-Team examined records of car accidents from the New York State...
James Romansoff, 58, of Yonkers was killed while working on the elevated Metro-North tracks on Park Avenue near 106th Street in Manhattan. The lawyers from Block O'Toole & Murphy covered this tragedy yesterday with a promise to follow-up as the investigation...
Around 1:30 a.m. on Saturday March 1, 2014, a woman, later identified by police as Marisol Martinez, 21, was struck and killed by an MTA bus at the intersection of Meeker and Union Avenues in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. We profiled this tragedy earlier and...
This blog has reported before on the difficulty of obtaining usable traffic crash data from NYPD. However, there are several alternative sources. These are operated by private citizens who take the raw data from the PDF files released by the New York Police Department...
Authorities have reported that William Pena, an MTA bus driver, was killed and two people were critically injured when a New York City bus and a box truck collided in Greenwich Village. Fire officials say two other people suffered minor injuries in the bus accident,...
