Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Traffic Justice

Unlicensed Driver Who Killed Brooklyn Senior Convicted of Leaving Scene

By Brad Aaron | May 28, 2014 | No Comments

A jury has convicted a motorist who, while driving without a license, fatally struck a Brooklyn senior and left the scene. Isabel Rodriguez, 88, was walking with her 79-year-old sister on July 22, 2012, when Wayne Stokeling drove into her at Stone and Livonia Avenues in Brownsville, according to reports. Police tracked down his damaged BMW […]

Unlicensed Driver Faces Wrist Slap After Killing Queens Cyclist William Faison

By Brad Aaron | May 27, 2014 | 19 Comments

A motorist who was reportedly driving with a suspended license will likely get off with a slap on the wrist after she killed a cyclist in Queens last week. Reports say William Faison, 53, was riding south on 228th Street in Cambria Heights at around 8:50 a.m. Friday when 26-year-old Tiffany Delcia Moore hit him with […]

Manhattan DA Cy Vance Won’t Prosecute Cab Driver Who Killed 9-Year-Old

By Brad Aaron | May 22, 2014 | 37 Comments

Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance will file no criminal charges against the cab driver who killed 9-year-old Cooper Stock and injured his father in an Upper West Side crosswalk in January. Lisa Belkin of Yahoo News reports that prosecutors met Wednesday with Cooper’s parents, Richard Stock and Dana Lerner. “They told me there is nothing […]

Brooklyn DA Secures Rare Manslaughter Conviction for Pedestrian Death

By Brad Aaron | May 21, 2014 | 2 Comments

In a rare case of an apparently sober motorist facing serious penalties for a fatal crash, an unlicensed hit-and-run driver who killed one Brooklyn pedestrian and seriously injured another pled guilty to manslaughter this week. Raul De La Cruz and an unidentified woman were crossing Borinquen Place near Keap Street in Williamsburg at around 5 […]

Accused Unlicensed Hit-and-Run Killer on Trial in Brooklyn

By Brad Aaron | May 20, 2014 | 2 Comments

A motorist who authorities say had a history of driving offenses and was driving without a license when he fatally struck a Brooklyn senior and fled the scene two years ago is on trial this week. Isabel Rodriguez, 88, was walking with her 79-year-old sister on July 22, 2012, when Wayne Stokeling drove into her at […]

DA Ken Thompson Won’t Say When DWI Killer Might Drive Again [Updated]

By Brad Aaron | May 14, 2014 | 3 Comments

The office of Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson won’t talk about reported developments in the case of a defendant who avoided a homicide charge after killing a pedestrian while driving drunk. Eric Nesmith hit Roxana Gomez at Flatbush Avenue and St. Marks Avenue with a BMW sedan just after midnight on July 5, 2013, according to witness accounts and the Post. Gomez, 27, suffered […]

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