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The Weekly Carnage

This is the debut of a new Streetsblog feature called "The Weekly Carnage." Every Friday morning we will tally up and present the previous week's motor vehicle mayhem throughout the region -- deaths, injuries and property destruction. It's a grim accounting but we feel like someone's got to do it.

By Aaron Donovan

10:43 AM EDT on July 28, 2006

This is the debut of a new Streetsblog feature called “The Weekly Carnage.” Every Friday morning we will tally up and present the previous week’s motor vehicle mayhem throughout the region — deaths, injuries and property destruction. It’s a grim accounting but we feel like someone’s got to do it.

Staten Island Man Dies in Wrong-Way Crash on L.I. (Aftermath Above) (Newsday)
No Charges Filed in Wrong-Way Crash (Newsday)
Tomahawk Missle in Bronx Accident Was Unarmed (Gothamist)
Girl, 15, Killed by Sleeping Hummer Driver (Newsday)
No Charges for the Crash, but Driver Had Pled Guilty to Usury (NYT)
1 Dead, 4 Hospitalized in Taconic Parkway SUV rollover (Daily Freeman)
Man Killed in Hit-and-Run at 28th & Third (NY Post)
1 Dead, 3 Injured in Three-Car Pileup on NJ Turnpike (Newark Star-Ledger)
New Palz Mother Dies but Son, 4 Survives (RecordOnline)
Brooklyn Father, 41, Dies in N.J. Crash, Son Injured (Daily Record)
N.J. Teen Charged After Fatal SUV Crash in North Carolina (Wilson Daily)
Man Killed, Woman Injured in Syosset (Newsday)
Driver, 65, Dies After Hitting Light Pole (Newsday)
Fireman Hit by Cab Has Leg Amputated (Daily News)
Hempstead Man Badly Injured in Accident (Newsday)
Bridgeport Man Charged After Car Chase Ends in Crash (Conn. Post)
Friends Mourn Priest Police Say Was Killed by Drunken Driver (AP via Daily News)
Driver Who Killed Synagogue-Bound Woman Was Drunk (Hartford Courant)
DUI Charges in Crash that Injured 3 (Conn. Post)
100-MPH Parolee Hits Hydrant, Injures Wife, Tries to Bribe Cops (NY Post)
1 Injured as Milk Truck and 18-Wheeler Collide (Jersey Journal)
SUV Crashes Into Parked Car in Hoboken (Hudson Reporter, 2nd item)
Bridgeport Mayor, Parking City-Owned SUV, Scrapes Car (Conn. Post)

(Photo by Jack Healy for Newsday)

Aaron Donovan

Before he began blogging about land use and transportation, Aaron Donovan wrote The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund's annual fundraising appeal for three years and earned a master's degree in urban planning from Columbia. Since then, he has worked for nonprofit organizations devoted to New York City economic development. He lives and works in the Financial District, and sees New York's pre-automobile built form as an asset that makes New York unique in the United States, and as a strategic advantage that should be capitalized upon.

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