Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Taxis & Limos

Post Wonders What Woman Did to Get Herself Run Over by Cab Driver

By Brad Aaron | Feb 5, 2014 | 19 Comments

It used to be that the tabloids would focus on any mistake by an injured or deceased pedestrian while ignoring what a motorist did, or didn’t do, to cause a crash. Now, in the absence of actual evidence that a pedestrian was in any way at fault, the Post has taken to spreading innuendo. Yesterday […]

Barron Lerner: It’s Time to Treat Reckless Driving Like Drunk Driving

By Brad Aaron | Jan 24, 2014 | 21 Comments

The most basic flaw in the New York State traffic justice system is that in most cases it fails to hold motorists accountable for deadly recklessness. Unless a motorist is under the influence of alcohol or drugs, killing someone with a car is usually not considered a crime. In a column for the Times, Barron […]

9-Year-Old Boy, Mother, and Senior Killed in Weekend of Motorist Violence

By Brad Aaron | Jan 13, 2014 | 20 Comments

Three pedestrians were fatally struck by motorists over the weekend, bringing to seven the number of people killed while walking in New York City in the first two weeks of 2014. Twenty pedestrians were killed by city motorists in January 2013, according to NYPD data, and 12 pedestrians and one cyclist died in January 2012. […]

Cab Driver Who Killed 5-Year-Old Remains in Good Standing With TLC

By Brad Aaron | Dec 19, 2013 | 6 Comments

The cab driver who killed a 5-year-old child in Brooklyn last year is still on the road. Meanwhile, the civil suit filed by the victim’s parents was transferred to NYC this week from Texas, where the family lives. In April 2012, Timothy Keith and his mother and father were on their first trip to the city when, shortly after […]

Public Still Doesn’t Know Why Cy Vance Failed to Charge in Sian Green Case

By Brad Aaron | Nov 18, 2013 | 28 Comments

Last Friday WNYC ran a piece in which Bronx vehicular crimes chief Joe McCormack explained why he thought Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance failed to file charges against the cab driver who drove onto a Midtown sidewalk and severed the leg of tourist Sian Green. The story offers valuable insight into the mindset of prosecutors, but […]

No Charges From Cy Vance for Cab Driver Who Maimed Tourist Sian Green

By Brad Aaron | Nov 14, 2013 | 76 Comments

The cab driver who hit a cyclist and drove onto a Midtown sidewalk, severing the leg of British tourist Sian Green, will not be charged with a crime by Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance. Here is a statement from Joan Vollero, Vance’s deputy communications director, released to the media today: “Following a thorough, two-month-long investigation by […]

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