A senior citizen was killed by a truck driver who backed over him on First Avenue on Tuesday morning — the second such incident in the same day and the second time the driver was not initially charged.
He's the ninth cyclist killed so far this year, police statistics show. According to the NYPD, just 10 cyclists were killed in all of 2018. Total road fatalities are up 21 percent so far this year, again according to the NYPD.
The United States Postal Service Inspector General won't release the locations where its auditors found egregious fleet safety violations, citing a rule protecting "trade secrets ... which, under good business practice, would not be publicly disclosed."