Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Traffic Justice

Sunday: Rally at City Hall for Traffic Justice

By Ben Fried | Dec 4, 2009 | No Comments

Over the Thanksgiving holiday, three people were killed in New York City by drivers with suspended licenses. These deaths are entirely preventable. If not for a legal system that cavalierly lets reckless drivers get back behind the wheel, Sonya Powell and Lillian and Peter Sabados might still be alive. Steps like impounding the vehicles of […]

Council Members: If Only There Was Some Way to Deter Reckless Driving

By Ben Fried | Dec 4, 2009 | 6 Comments

Yesterday the City Council held a hearing on street safety for older New Yorkers. The hearing came while the deaths of Lillian and Peter Sabados, an elderly Staten Island couple run down by Allmir Lekperic on Thanksgiving eve, are still fresh in people’s minds. But when it comes to keeping drivers like Lekperic from harming […]

What Does It Take to Keep a Reckless New York Driver Off the Road?

By Brad Aaron | Dec 3, 2009 | 29 Comments

We heard the question more than once. When it was reported that Allmir Lekperic, the unlicensed driver who killed Peter and Lillian Sabados as they walked to Thanksgiving Mass on Staten Island last Wednesday evening, had racked up some 29 license suspensions since 2006, Streetsblog readers wondered: How is this guy not behind bars, much […]

Unlicensed Drivers, Coddled By the Law, Kill Three More New Yorkers

By Brad Aaron | Nov 30, 2009 | 20 Comments

In handing down a prison term of 20-to-life for Auvryn Scarlett, the garbage hauler who had stopped taking his epilepsy medication before suffering a seizure behind the wheel and killing two pedestrians last year, Justice Richard Carruthers described the convicted as "a time bomb ready to explode at any moment on the streets of New […]

Ninth Ave Road Rage Case: Bengen Cleared; Gonzalez Files to Dismiss

By Ben Fried | Nov 25, 2009 | 5 Comments

Gus Gonzalez and his Ford Excursion were caught on camera after knocking cyclist Ray Bengen to the pavement back in May. We’ve got a quick update on the legal aftermath of the Ninth Avenue road rage case, in which the Manhattan DA’s office charged both cyclist Ray Bengen and SUV driver Gus Gonzalez. The DA […]

Post-Leandra’s Law, New York Needs to Protect All Reckless Driving Victims

By Brad Aaron | Nov 24, 2009 | No Comments

It’s past time for lawmakers, judges, prosecutors and police to step up for kids like Christian Acteopan, Diego Martinez, Hayley Ng and Axel Pablo, whose sober killers went unpunished. While it took a lot of very public arm-twisting, last week brought a rare bit of good news from Albany: Lawmakers actually passed and adopted legislation […]

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