Demonstrating that New York isn’t the only place with traffic fatalities, this week we learn that roadside memorials to those killed in traffic crashes have become a business in Chicago. As for our area …

• Fatal Hit-and-Run Is Second in 9-Hour Span in Manhattan (NYT)
• Marine Held in Chelsea Hit-and-Run (NY Post) 
• Hit-and-Run: Time For Serious Hearings and Legislation (Room Eight)
• Nun Hit By Cadillac in Critical Condition (Daily News)
• Sanitation Worker Killed When Truck Overturns on BQE (NYT)
• Adirondack Northway Bus Crash Kills 5 (Daily News)
• Bus’s Tires May Have Caused Crash (Gothamist)
• Pedestrian Killed in Freeport, L.I. (Newsday)
• Wyandanch, L.I., Man Shot While Cycling (Newsday)
• Motorcycle Crash Kills Man in Uniondale, L.I. (Newsday) 
• Islanders Prospect Dies in Car Crash in Slovakia (Ice Hockey News)
• Two Arrested for DWI in Fiery Crash in Coram, L.I. (7Online)
• Critical Mass Rider Sees Pedestrian Hit by Car (Indymedia)
• Car Smashes Into House in Mansfield, N.J. (NBC10)
• Cinderblock Injures Car Passenger on N.J. Turnpike (NBC10)
• Queens Carjacker Kidnaps Mom and Baby, Smashes Their Car (NY Post)