Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Collision Investigation Squad

Scenes like this are being investigated more thoroughly by the Department of Transportation these days.

DOT Report Shows Ongoing Driver Recklessness — And the Agency’s Slow Response to It

By Dave Colon | Jul 15, 2022 | No Comments

There were 15,947 reported vehicle crashes in the first quarter of 2022. The Department of Transportation examined 521 of those crash locations and took immediate action to improve safety at just three.

Update: Jeep Driver Kills 1-Year-Old on Staten Island and Is Later Charged

By Julianne Cuba | May 26, 2022 | No Comments

A 1-year-old baby is dead after the driver of a Jeep struck him and his mother as they crossed a Staten Island street in the crosswalk on Thursday morning, said cops, who later charged the driver with failure to yield, a minor charge.

A cyclist was killed by a hit-and-run garbage truck driver in Boro Park on Thursday morning, days after NYU student Raife Milligan (inset) was killed by a drunk driver. Main photo: Julianne Cuba

CARNAGE: Garbage Truck Driver Kills Cyclist in Borough Park, After Pedestrian is Killed by Drunk Driver in Manhattan

By Julianne Cuba and Gersh Kuntzman | May 5, 2022 | No Comments

Two promising lives cut down early.

Grieving mother Tasha Horton still doesn't have the answers.

EXCLUSIVE: Cops Questioned Driver in Fatal Brooklyn Hit-and-Run But Just Let Him Go

By Gersh Kuntzman | Apr 18, 2022 | No Comments

A review of the NYPD investigation of the hit-and-run killing of Imorne Horton raises questions about police procedures and whether the NYPD and the Brooklyn District Attorney are sufficiently concerned about holding killer drivers accountable.

The garbage truck was still at the intersection an hour after the crash at Atlantic and Flatbush avenues, a sheet covering the victim's gruesome injuries. Photo: Julianne Cuba

Private Garbage Truck Driver Kills Pedestrian at Dangerous Brooklyn Intersection

By Julianne Cuba | Mar 4, 2022 | No Comments

The driver of a private sanitation truck struck and killed a man at a notoriously dangerous Brooklyn intersection on Friday afternoon, the latest in a string of fatal crashes amid the deadliest year so far under Vision Zero.

ONE YEAR LATER: NYPD Has No Answers for Grieving Mom of Brooklyn Hit-and-Run Victim

By Gersh Kuntzman | Feb 24, 2022 | No Comments

"I have nothing. I have nothing," she told Streetsblog this week as she prepared a small vigil with her two surviving children at the crash site at Court Street on Thursday at around 4:30 p.m.

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