The Weekly Carnage is a Friday round-up of motor vehicle violence across the five boroughs and beyond. For more on the origins and purpose of this column, please read About the Weekly Carnage .
A taxi driver crashed into a light pole at the corner of the Bowery and East 3rd Street, injuring pedestrians, according to a witness. Photo: ##http://www.boweryboogie.com/2012/12/cab-crashes-into-bowery-light-pole-last-night-injuring-pedestrians/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BoweryBoogieALowerEastSideChronicle+%28Bowery+Boogie%29##Bowery Boogie## A taxi driver crashed into a light pole on the Bowery and East 3rd Street, injuring pedestrians, according to a witness. Photo: ##http://www.boweryboogie.com/2012/12/cab-crashes-into-bowery-light-pole-last-night-injuring-pedestrians/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BoweryBoogieALowerEastSideChronicle+%28Bowery+Boogie%29##Bowery Boogie## Fatal Crashes (1 Killed This Week, 146 This Year, 12 Drivers Charged*) Dyker Heights: Motorcyclist Hector Rivera, 37, Struck by SUV Driver; "No Criminality" (Advance , Post ) Williamsburg: Cyclist Struck in August Died From Injuries; "No Criminality Suspected" (Streetsblog )*** Injuries, Arrests and Property Damage East Flatbush: Driver Strikes Pedestrian, Leaving Him Unconscious; "No Criminality" (Post Blotter ) Borough Park: Pedestrian, 60, Seriously Injured by Hit-and-Run Driver; AIS Requested (@NYScanner ) East Village: Cab Driver Crashes Into Light Pole, Injures Pedestrians (Bowery Boogie )** Parkchester: Man Hit, Critically Injured by Van Driver; AIS Dispatched (DNA , @NYScanner ) Unionport: Pedestrian Struck, Seriously Injured on Ellis Avenue (DNA ) Forest Hills: Pedestrian Hit, Transported to Hospital in Serious Condition (@NYScanner ) East Flatbush: School Bus-Dollar Van Collision Leaves Five Children Injured (DNA ) Morrisania: Five Kids Hurt When Driver Rear-Ends School Bus; Eighth Bus Crash Since October (DNA ) Great Kills: Collision Leaves Two Pinned in Car (Advance ) Charleston: Drunk Driver Charged With DWI After Slamming Into Pole, Refusing Breathalyzer (Advance ) In the Region, Out of Town Boston: City Council Members Honor Deceased Cyclist, Call for Data-Driven Safety Measures (Globe ) Philadelphia: Pizza Deliveryman Struck by Hit-and-Run Driver, Left With Brain Damage (News ) Englewood, NJ: NJ Transit Bus Driver Falls Asleep, Nearly Drives Off Overpass (NBC NY ) Green Brook, NJ: Police Search for Hit-and-Run Driver Who Struck Pedestrian in Crosswalk (NJ.com ) Princeton, NJ: Authorities Use "Black Box" Data to Help Convict DWI Killer (Broadsheet Daily ) Los Angeles: Driver Charged With Manslaughter for Driving With Pedestrian's Body on Hood (News ) Following Up Tour Bus Driver Found Not Guilty in Bronx Crash That Killed 15 (News , NYT ) Kevin Spellman Verdict Highlights Continued Weakness of Drunk Driving Cases (Streetsblog ) SI Motorist Whose DWI Crash Killed Teen Passenger Sentenced to 10 Years (Advance ) Driver Who Crashed Stolen Cab in Union Square Tells Jury He Was Drunk, High (Gothamist ) Lawyer for Curb-Jumping Manhattan Driver Blames Deceased Victim for "Negligence" (Gothamist ) Other News Citing Baseless AAA Report , Lawsuit Seeks to “Shut Down” Red Light Cameras (Post ) Lander: School Rezonings Put Kids at Risk From Fourth Avenue Traffic (Bklyn Spoke ) TA Scavengers to Document Harrowing Conditions on Deadly Queens Boulevard (DNA ) GGW's David Alpert : We Don't Have to Live With Roads That Are Killing Us (WaPo ) *Based on latest available reports **Incident in which a vehicle left the roadway ***This fatality is reflected in the annual, but not weekly, figure