Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about New York State DMV

DMV: Driver Who Killed Child in Crosswalk May Drive Again After Six Months

By Brad Aaron | Jul 14, 2015 | 20 Comments

Pursuant to a New York State Department of Motor Vehicles hearing, the former cab driver who killed 9-year-old Cooper Stock will regain his driving privileges after six months. In January 2014 Cooper and his father Richard Stock were crossing an Upper West Side street in a crosswalk with the right of way when Koffi Komlani hit them […]

DMV: Six-Month Suspension for Driver Who Killed Sammy Cohen Eckstein

By Brad Aaron | Jul 8, 2015 | 11 Comments

The New York State Department of Motor Vehicles determined that the driver who killed 12-year-old Sammy Cohen Eckstein failed to exercise due care and did not have a valid license at the time of the crash. DMV administrative law judge Marc Berger suspended the driver’s license for six months. At around 5:15 p.m. on October […]

Why Was New York State DMV Live-Tweeting the New York Auto Show?

By Brad Aaron | Apr 2, 2015 | 10 Comments

First-ever CT6 Cadillac. The brand will leverage its NYC base to market this prestige class auto to some 50 countries pic.twitter.com/IhKOKvX1l6 — NYS DMV (@nysdmv) April 1, 2015 The New York State Department of Motor Vehicles was live-tweeting the New York International Auto Show yesterday. Why would staffers at the government agency charged with regulating motor vehicles and their […]

DMV Suspends License of Driver Who Killed Mathieu Lefevre for Six Months

By Brad Aaron | Mar 17, 2015 | 2 Comments

The New York State Department of Motor Vehicles found the truck driver who killed Brooklyn cyclist Mathieu Lefevre responsible for the collision and suspended his driver’s license for six months. Leonardo Degianni’s DMV safety hearing took place on March 2, three-and-a-half years after he hit Lefevre at the intersection of Morgan Avenue and Meserole Street. At […]

No Word on Whether Trucker Who Killed Mathieu Lefevre Will Keep License

By Brad Aaron | Mar 2, 2015 | 4 Comments

More than three years after the crash, the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles held a hearing today to determine whether to take action against the truck driver who killed cyclist Mathieu Lefevre. But Lefevre’s family will have to wait on a DMV decision. Lefevre, 30, was killed just after midnight on October 19, 2011, while […]

DMV Revoked License of Driver Who Killed Allison Liao for Just 30 Days

By Brad Aaron | Jan 30, 2015 | 19 Comments

The motorist who killed 3-year-old Allison Liao could be back behind the wheel before long, as the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles revoked his license for just 30 days. Following a hearing in early January, DMV administrative law judge Sidney Fuchs determined that Ahmad Abu-Zayedeh failed to yield the right of way when he ran over Allison […]

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