Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Traffic Justice

Another Person Killed by Turning Motorist in the 109th Precinct

By Brad Aaron | Apr 6, 2016 | 2 Comments

An ambulette driver was charged under the Right of Way Law for striking and killing a pedestrian in Flushing. The crash happened Tuesday at around 8:57 a.m. The victim — a 57-year-old man whose name has not been released by police, pending family notification — was crossing 35th Avenue in the crosswalk when Ramon Ortiz, 55, struck him with an SUV […]

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Associated Press Cautions Journalists That Crashes Aren’t Always “Accidents”

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 4, 2016 | No Comments

When negligence is claimed or proven, avoid accident, which can be read as exonerating the person responsible. #ACES2016 — APStylebook (@APStylebook) April 2, 2016 The Associated Press has tweaked its guidance for journalists about when to call traffic collisions “accidents.” Street safety advocates, spearheaded by New York City’s Transportation Alternatives, have been pushing police and media organizations to drop the […]

Driver Who Killed Charity Hicks Pleads to Homicide and Leaving the Scene

By Brad Aaron | Mar 22, 2016 | 1 Comment

The hit-and-run driver who struck and killed a Detroit woman as she waited for a bus in Hell’s Kitchen pled guilty to homicide and felony leaving the scene. He will serve a minimum of two and a maximum of six years in prison, pursuant to a judge’s plea offer. Thomas Shanley drove a Dodge SUV onto the […]

NYPD: Teacher Killed by Cop in Crosswalk “Assumed Risk” by Crossing Street

By Brad Aaron | Mar 22, 2016 | 396 Comments

NYPD and the city Law Department are fighting a lawsuit filed by the family of a Brooklyn man who was killed in a crosswalk by an on-duty officer, on the grounds that the victim behaved recklessly by crossing the street. Felix Coss was crossing Broadway at Hooper Street in Williamsburg, in a crosswalk with the signal, on […]

No ROW Charge for Garbage Hauler Who Killed Woman in UES Crosswalk

By Brad Aaron | Mar 16, 2016 | 19 Comments

A pedestrian was struck and killed by the driver of a private garbage truck on the Upper East Side yesterday. Police determined the driver failed to yield but did not charge him with violating the Right of Way Law. The crash happened at around 4:30 Tuesday morning. According to reports, Jodi McGrath was crossing First Avenue […]

NYC Drivers Injured 1,191 Pedestrians and Cyclists, and Killed 13, in February

By Brad Aaron | Mar 15, 2016 | 8 Comments

Eighteen people died in New York City traffic in February, and 3,770 were injured, according to Mayor de Blasio’s Vision Zero View crash data map. As of the end of February, the city reported 26 pedestrians and cyclists killed by city motorists this year, and 2,277 injured, compared to 21 deaths and 1,896 injuries for the same […]

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