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.
Fatal Crashes (1 Killed This Week, 63 This Year; 3 Drivers Charged*)
Queens Village: Kaman Drummond, 26, Chased Down by Woman in Car Following Dispute; Driver Charged With Murder (DNA, Gothamist)
Injuries, Arrests and Property Damage
East Village: 50-Year-Old Pedestrian Struck, Critically Injured at Houston and Avenue C (DNA)
Fordham Heights: Hit-and-Run Driver Runs Down Man on Grand Concourse (Post Blotter)
Kips Bay: Two-Car Collision Sends Vehicle Into Duane Reade Storefront; Two Injured (Streetsblog)**
UES: 13 Injured in Pile-Up Involving School Bus (DNA)
Midtown: 88-Year-Old Crashes Into SUV, Scaffolding; Driver Charged With Assault (Post 1, 2)**
Midtown: Speeding Driver Hits Pedestrian, Crane Carrying Sculpture Before Fleeing on Foot (Post)
Parkchester: Crash Leaves Victim Pinned in Car (@NYScanner)
Sixty people died in the first three months of the year, 50 percent more than the first quarter of 2018, which was the safest opening three months of any Vision Zero year.