Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about District Attorneys

DOT: 1,336 Pedestrians and Cyclists Injured, 7 Killed in September

By Brad Aaron | Oct 21, 2015 | 2 Comments

Fifteen people died in New York City traffic in September, and 4,612 were injured, according to DOT’s Vision Zero View crash data map. As of the end of September, DOT reported 95 pedestrians and cyclists killed by city motorists this year, and 10,498 injured, compared to 114 deaths and 10,863 injuries for the same period in 2014. Citywide, at […]

DA Robert Johnson: Manslaughter Charges for Cab Driver Who Killed Two

By Brad Aaron | Oct 20, 2015 | 2 Comments

District Attorney Robert Johnson has filed felony charges against the green cab driver who killed two people on a Bronx sidewalk. Johnson’s office told Gothamist Emilio Garcia was off his epilepsy medication when he hit 5-year-old Tierre Clark and Kadeem Brown, 25, at the Grand Concourse and E. 170th Street on March 20. Reports published after the crash […]

Appeals Court Nixes Murder Conviction of Off-Meds Driver Who Killed Two

By Brad Aaron | Oct 19, 2015 | 8 Comments

A state appeals court reduced the conviction of a commercial truck driver who killed two Manhattan pedestrians while off his epilepsy medication. According to the New York Law Journal, the ruling cited as precedent a recent decision by the Court of Appeals, New York’s highest court, which prosecutors feared would make it more difficult to bring cases against motorists who […]

Richard Brown: Misdemeanor Plea for Accused Unlicensed Hit-and-Run Killer

By Brad Aaron | Sep 30, 2015 | 9 Comments

In a deal with District Attorney Richard Brown, a driver charged with felony hit-and-run and driving without a license after fatally striking a Queens pedestrian has pled guilty to violating the city’s Right of Way Law. Last February Valentine Gonzalez hit an unidentified woman with a box truck while turning left at Woodside Avenue and […]

Repeat Drunk Driver Pleads to Low-Level Felony for Killing Queens Pedestrian

By Brad Aaron | Sep 25, 2015 | 5 Comments

A recidivist drunk driver who was charged with 10 felonies for killing a Queens pedestrian pled guilty to two low-level felony counts in a deal with District Attorney Richard Brown. At around 4:30 a.m. on July 5, 2014, Romulo Mejia drove a Ford compact into a man who was walking at Roosevelt Avenue and 92nd Street in Jackson Heights, according to the […]

DOT: Drivers Injured 1,323 Pedestrians and Cyclists in August, and Killed 14

By Brad Aaron | Sep 24, 2015 | 4 Comments

Twenty-one people died in New York City traffic in August, and 4,891 were injured, according to DOT’s Vision Zero View crash data map. As of the end of August, DOT reported 88 pedestrians and cyclists killed by city motorists this year, and 9,150 injured, compared to 96 deaths and 9,628 injuries for the same period […]

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