Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Traffic Justice

No Charges for Alleged Drunken Hit-and-Run Death of Brooklyn Woman

By Brad Aaron | Mar 22, 2012 | 11 Comments

Contrary to media reports, the Domino’s Pizza delivery driver accused of killing pedestrian Margaret Myers in Brooklyn earlier this month is not facing charges for her death. NYPD sources told the Post and Daily News that Videsh Badal was drunk and driving with a suspended a license when he ran down Myers, 69, on Wortman […]

Bypassing Courts, NYPD Says Video Cleared Lefevre Hit-and-Run Driver

By Brad Aaron | Mar 12, 2012 | 12 Comments

Court documents reveal that NYPD decided not to charge the hit-and-run driver who struck and killed Brooklyn cyclist Mathieu Lefevre based on video of the crash. While it’s not clear how video footage can prove that the driver didn’t know he had hit Lefevre, it was apparently sufficient evidence for the department’s Accident Investigation Squad. […]

Husband Says NYPD Wrecked Case Against Driver Charged for Wife’s Death

By Brad Aaron | Mar 8, 2012 | 7 Comments

Last week we reported how the botched NYPD investigation into the death of Brooklyn cyclist Stefanos Tsigrimanis was initially compromised due to a department policy that keeps the Accident Investigation Squad from working cases unless the victim is believed likely to die. When an emergency room doctor told police that Tsigrimanis was not fatally injured, AIS […]

Is There Really a “Rule of Two”?

By Brad Aaron | Feb 22, 2012 | 16 Comments

Conventional wisdom has it that in the state of New York a motorist must be breaking at least two traffic laws at the time of a crash to be charged with criminal negligence. As Nassau County ADA Maureen McCormick told Streetsblog: “It is believed that if a defendant commits two simultaneous traffic violations in the […]

Driver Cleared By NYPD Found Negligent in Death of Cyclist Rasha Shamoon

By Brad Aaron | Feb 14, 2012 | 17 Comments

A civil jury has found that a driver cleared of wrongdoing by NYPD was primarily responsible for the collision that killed a Manhattan cyclist in 2008. In the early morning hours of August 5, Rasha Shamoon was riding her bike east on Kenmare Street, en route to the Williamsburg Bridge and home to Greenpoint. At […]

Accused DWI Killer Gets Probation for Death of Six-Year-Old Zhaneya Butcher

By Brad Aaron | Feb 2, 2012 | 11 Comments

A killer charged with the DWI manslaughter death of a six-year-old child walked out of court Tuesday without spending a day in jail. Prosecutors say Kent Lowrie, 53, was legally drunk when he hit and killed Zhaneya Butcher last summer as the little girl ran toward an ice cream truck on 104th Avenue in Jamaica, […]

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