Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about NYPD Crash Data

How NYPD’s Opaque Crash Investigations Spoil Its Street Safety Message

By Stephen Miller | Feb 6, 2014 | 3 Comments

Last month, the Upper East Side’s 19th Precinct devoted two full pages to traffic safety in its inaugural monthly newsletter. In an echo of Police Commissioner Bill Bratton, who claimed at the initial Vision Zero press conference that 73 percent of crashes injuring pedestrians are the victim’s fault, it featured an eyebrow-raising statistic that blames […]

Manhattan Community Boards Want to Fix 57 Dangerous Places for Peds

By Stephen Miller | Jan 31, 2014 | 11 Comments

Yesterday, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer compiled a list of 57 pedestrian danger hotspots identified by community board district managers and sent it to city agency heads serving on Mayor de Blasio’s Vision Zero task force. Many of the locations in Brewer’s list have a long track record as dangerous locations, including many where people […]

NYPD: 16,059 Pedestrians and Cyclists Injured, 178 Killed in Traffic in 2013

By Brad Aaron | Jan 31, 2014 | 15 Comments

Twenty-five people died in New York City traffic in December, and 4,277 were injured, according to the latest NYPD crash data report [PDF]. Based on monthly NYPD figures, 168 pedestrians and 10 cyclists were killed by city motorists in 2013, and 16,059 pedestrians and cyclists were injured. These numbers are preliminary, and official data from […]