Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about DOT Crash Data

The BQE triple-cantilever. Photo: Kevin Duggan

Stats Show That a Narrower BQE is Safer, Yet City is Considering Widening the Highway

By Kevin Duggan | Apr 10, 2023 | No Comments

Collisions on the Queens-bound side of the cantilever have dropped 65 percent compared to 2019, according to a DOT analysis obtained by Streetsblog.

The scene of a fatal bike crash. File photo: Dave Colon

SEE NO EVIL? NYPD Inexplicably Removes Bike Injury Data From TrafficStat

By Julianne Cuba | Aug 20, 2020 | No Comments

The NYPD has mysteriously removed statistics on bike injuries from its online database even as cycling — and cycling injuries from car drivers — are a key side-effect of the COVID-19 pandemic.

UPDATED: NYPD Will No Longer Respond to Minor Car Crashes

By Gersh Kuntzman | Mar 30, 2020 | No Comments

The NYPD has made thousands of crashes on Staten Island simply disappear — and now is poised to do the same thing for the entire city.

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NYPD Arrests Hit-and-Run Driver Who Killed Woman in Sheepshead Bay

By Julianne Cuba | Oct 22, 2019 | No Comments

Cops on Monday said they arrested the hit-and-run driver who ran over a 66-year-old woman in Sheepshead Bay last week, leaving her for dead.

These numbers are posted every week on the NYPD website. The DOT says they are wrong.

Road Fatalities Are Way Up* (Yes, That’s an Asterisk)

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jun 5, 2019 | 8 Comments

Pay no attention to those statistics on that seemingly official NYPD website — traffic fatalities are not up 26.2 percent so far this year. They're "only" up 22.4 percent.

Dorothy Parker, Giovanni Ampuero, and Cellou Diallo

NYC Motorists Injured 971 People Walking and Biking in April, and Killed 10

By Brad Aaron | May 24, 2018 | 1 Comment

City Hall reported 37 people killed by motorists while walking or biking through April, and 4,346 injured, compared to 39 deaths and 4,545 injuries in the first four months of 2017.

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