Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Crash Data

Jacob Bavdaz, 84, was hit by a turning driver at Van Cortlandt and Sedgwick avenues in the Bronx. The white line indicates the approximate path of the victim -- it’s unknown which direction he was walking -- and the red arrow shows the path of the driver. Police said Bavdaz was “outside the crosswalk” and filed no charges. Image: Google Maps

NYC Drivers Injured 1,083 Pedestrians and Cyclists in March, and Killed 12

By Brad Aaron | Apr 25, 2017 | 2 Comments

Citywide, 11 pedestrians and one cyclist were fatally struck by drivers last month. Among the victims were Joseph Ranieri, Carmen Velez, Ping Xie, Jacob Bavdaz, Danielle Leathers, Skylar Perkins, an unnamed male pedestrian in Manhattan, and two unnamed female pedestrians in Brooklyn.

A motorist in a jacked-up Ford pickup killed Peggy Diaz while making a turn at Correll Avenue and Gervil Street in Staten Island. Police filed no charges and blamed Diaz for her own death. Image: Google Maps

NYC Drivers Injured 950 Pedestrians and Cyclists in February, and Killed 5

By Brad Aaron | Mar 22, 2017 | 3 Comments

Nineteen pedestrians and cyclists were killed by city motorists through February, and 2,186 injured, compared to 26 deaths and 2,296 injuries in the first two months of 2016.

Crash Mapper provides greater flexibility to query and visualize crash data than the city's Vision Zero View tool.

Map the Dangerous Streets in Your Neighborhood With This New Tool

By David Meyer | Mar 8, 2017 | No Comments

The street safety advocates at Hell's Kitchen-based Chekpeds have relaunched NYC Crash Mapper, a tool lets you drill down on traffic crash data in your neighborhood, community board, or City Council district. The new Crash Mapper interface is a step up from City Hall's Vision Zero View tool, which launched in 2014, in some important ways.

Traffic fatalities have dropped every year since the de Blasio administration launched its Vision Zero initiative. The improvement was not substantial in 2016, however.

NYC Traffic Deaths Are Falling, But Not Fast Enough

By David Meyer | Jan 11, 2017 | 6 Comments

While the de Blasio administrations's traffic safety efforts are working, the mayor and his agencies aren't acting decisively enough to reach the Vision Zero goal of eliminating traffic deaths by 2024.

Reinvent Albany: NYPD Needs to Open Up Its Traffic Summons Data

By David Meyer | Dec 6, 2016 | No Comments

NYPD's TrafficStat site merely maps data that was already available and lacks data about where police are enforcing traffic laws, which the agency has refused to release for years.

The NYPD is making its TrafficStat crash-mapping tool available to the public, but data on where police issue traffic summonses is still not available. Image: NYPD

City Hall Puts NYPD’s TrafficStat Crash-Mapping Tool Online

By David Meyer | Nov 29, 2016 | No Comments

The city will make "TrafficStat," NYPD's tool for mapping and analyzing traffic collision data, available online to the public. It's an improvement but lacks one very important type of information -- data about where police are enforcing traffic laws.

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