The Weekly Carnage

Fatal Crashes (10 this week; 640 this year)

  • Midtown: Cyclist doored, killed by truck (Streetsblog)
  • Queens: Youth with suspended license, two dead, above (News)
  • Related: Sports car was college gift, below (Post)
  • Bergen County, N.J.: Relief turns to horror, two dead (Post)
  • Related: American Ballet Theater mourns death of leading dancer (Post)
  • Setauket, L.I.: Two car collision, pedestrian killed (Newsday)
  • Patchogue, L.I.: Pedestrian killed (Newsday)
  • Fishkill, N.Y.: Truck collision, one dead (Poughkeepsie Journal)
  • Toms River, N.J.: Elderly woman veers off road (Star Ledger)
  • Garden State Parkway: "Erratic" behavior, driver veers off road (Star Ledger)
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Typically unfortunate product placement in the Post.


Injuries, Arrests, and Property Damage

  • Times Square: Cyclist hit by bus (AMNY)
  • Upper East Side: Car ploughs through pedestrian refuge (Streetsblog)
  • Selden, L.I.: Drunk driver endangers son (Newsday)
  • Syosset, L.I.: Car overturns on highway (Newsday)
  • Greenport, L.I.: Multi-car accident, cop injured (Newsday)
  • Hempstead, L.I.: Girl, 5, struck at busy intersection (Newsday)
  • Long Island Expressway: Drunk driver slams police cruiser (Newsday)
  • Related: Injured cop has been hurt on L.I.E. before (Newsday)
  • Cutchogue, L.I.: Beloved resident critically injured (Newsday)
  • Queens: Tanker truck crashes, spills 3,000 gallons of diesel (Newsday)
  • Yonkers: Three car crash, one hospitalized (Journal News)
  • Rye, N.Y.: Driver tries to avoid deer, damages utility pole (Journal News)
  • Yorktown, N.Y.: Drunk driver runs into ditch, three children in car (Journal News)
  • Hoboken, N.J.: Former Mayor charged in DUI (Hoboken Now)
  • Northern New Jersey: Icy weather leads to multiple crashes (Star-Ledger)

Following Up

  • Bronx: Cop pleads not guilty in shooting of drunk driver (News)
  • Staten Island: Manslaughter charges in drag racing crash (Advance)

Trends

  • New Jersey: Peer education program to reduce teen driving deaths (Newsday)
  • Journal News/LoHud.com solicits reports of bad drivers (LoHud.com)

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The Weekly Carnage is a Friday round-up of motor vehicle violence across the five boroughs. For more on the origins and purpose of this column, please read About the Weekly Carnage. Fatal Crashes (5 Killed Since Oct. 3; 160 This Year*) Chinatown: Woman in Her 70s Struck on Canal; Driver “Didn’t See” Victim; No Charges (Streetsblog) […]

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The Weekly Carnage is a Friday round-up of motor vehicle mayhem across the five boroughs and beyond. For more on the origins and purpose of this column, please read About the Weekly Carnage. Bronx community organizer and cyclist Megan Charlop, shown here in 1977, died on Crotona Ave after a driver opened a door in […]

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The Weekly Carnage is a Friday round-up of motor vehicle mayhem across the five boroughs and beyond. For more on the origins and purpose of this column, please read About the Weekly Carnage. Fatal Crashes (5 Killed This Week, 22 This Year, 4 Drivers Charged*) Astoria, Queens: Frank Justich, 41-Year-Old Sanitation Worker, Father of Two, […]

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Fatal Crashes (11 Killed this week; 610 Killed this year) Ozone Park: One dead, drunk driver into oncoming traffic (Newsday)   Middle Village: Ambulette hits lightpost, tree, one dead (Post)  Queens: Vehicle collision, one dead, one critically injured (Post) Levittown, L.I.: Pedestrian, 62, by drunk driver (Post) (Newsday) West Babylon, L.I.: One dead, one injured, driver veers into […]