Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Traffic Justice

Driver Charged Under ROW Law After Killing Teresa Martinelli, 79, in Midtown

By Brad Aaron | Jul 13, 2016 | 4 Comments

A senior hit by a driver in Midtown earlier this month has died. NYPD charged the driver with violating the victim’s right of way. Teresa Martinelli, 79, was “knocked out of her floral print shoes” when Mieczyslaw Truskowski hit her with a Toyota pick-up truck as she crossed at Second Avenue and E. 58th Street at around […]

Manhattan DA Vance Wins Manslaughter Conviction for High-Speed LES Crash

By Brad Aaron | Jul 7, 2016 | 5 Comments

Update: Danny Lin was sentenced to one and two-thirds to five years in prison. The sentence was “half of what prosecutors had argued for,” the Daily News reported. Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance won a jury trial conviction for manslaughter in the case of a speeding motorist who killed a man walking on the Lower East Side in […]

Brooklyn DA Charges Driver With Manslaughter for Killing Victoria Nicodemus

By David Meyer | Jun 28, 2016 | 5 Comments

A grand jury has indicted Marlon Sewell for second-degree manslaughter six months after he jumped a curb in Fort Greene and killed 30-year-old Victoria Nicodemus while driving with a suspended license, Gothamist reports. Brooklyn DA Ken Thompson had refrained from pressing felony charges until Nicodemus’s family pressured his office to take action. On December 6, Sewell, driving a Chevy SUV […]

Advocates Don’t Expect Judge’s Ruling Against Right of Way Law to Hold Up

By David Meyer | Jun 28, 2016 | 19 Comments

In rejecting the case against a school bus driver who struck and killed an elderly woman in a Queens crosswalk, a criminal court judge deemed the city’s Right of Way Law unconstitutional. The constitutionality of the law had previously been upheld in a different court, however, and street safety advocates don’t expect the new ruling to […]

Driver Who Killed Man While Fleeing NYPD Pleads to Manslaughter

By Brad Aaron | Jun 9, 2016 | 1 Comment

A driver who killed a man on a Brooklyn sidewalk while attempting to evade police pled guilty to manslaughter. Police pulled Raymond Ramos over at Sterling Place and Schenectady Avenue in Crown Heights shortly after midnight on March 9, 2015. As officers approached his car, Ramos, then 18, drove off. The Post and DNAinfo reported that […]

DA Ken Thompson Still Hasn’t Charged Driver for December Sidewalk Killing

By Brad Aaron | Jun 6, 2016 | 6 Comments

Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson charged the driver who killed Victoria Nicodemus on a Fort Greene sidewalk with unlicensed driving, but did not file charges for taking the victim’s life. Six months after the crash, Nicodemus’s family says the DA is dragging his feet on the case. Marlon Sewell hit Nicodemus, her boyfriend, and another person with a Chevrolet SUV […]

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