Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Carnage

The moment of impact in Crown Heights on Friday (with, inset, the number of crashes in the small neighborhood last year).

Driver Sought in Hit-and-Run in Crown Heights — Was It Intentional?

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jan 8, 2023 | No Comments

Police are seeking the heartless hit-and-run driver who flattened a pedestrian in Crown Heights on Friday night — a brutal, but rare, instance of road violence captured on camera that is now being investigated as a possible hate crime because the collision may have been intentional.

Someone installed a bouquet near the crash site on 24th Avenue, seen a day after the crash. Photo: Cristina Furlong

Locals Have Been Begging for Safer Street Where Trucker Killed Citi Bike Rider

By Kevin Duggan | Jan 6, 2023 | No Comments

Four dead cyclists in three years. Enough is enough, say Astoria activists.

Both of Lev Fruchter's parents (Norman, inset, and Rachel) have been killed by reckless drivers. Main photo: Peter Meitzler

Tragedy Times Two: Lev Fruchter Has Now Lost Both Parents to Road Violence

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jan 6, 2023 | No Comments

First, Rachel Fruchter was killed by a reckless, uninsurable driver in Prospect Park in 1997. Then, Norman Fruchter was killed last month by a reckless uninsurable driver in Bay Ridge.

BREAKING: Cement Truck Driver Fatally Strikes Woman on Citi Bike in Astoria

By Kevin Duggan | Jan 5, 2023 | No Comments

A trucker fatally struck a woman riding a Citi Bike in Astoria on Thursday evening, the fourth cyclist to be killed in the western Queens neighborhood in less than three years, according to officials.

Brooklyn pedestrians were struck late last year at these two dangerous intersections. Photos: Google

Two More Brooklyn Pedestrians Are Killed

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jan 5, 2023 | No Comments

Both were seniors.

Safety improvements have not been made to Broadway in the North Bronx. Now a man is dead. Photo: Google

Pedestrian Killed at a Dangerous Bronx Intersection that City Has Failed to Make Safe

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jan 4, 2023 | No Comments

A pick-up truck driver killed a pedestrian early on New Year's Eve at a notoriously dangerous Bronx intersection, then left him to die, cops said.

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