The Weekly Carnage
Here is the third installment of our Weekly Carnage column, covering the tragic fatalities that inevitably result from a car-dependent society. This week there was a lot of family trauma. A 4-year-old girl loses her mother, father and sister. An 85-year-old man kills his presumed wife. An 18-year-old son kills his father.
9:25 AM EDT on August 18, 2006
Here is the third installment of our Weekly Carnage column, covering the tragic fatalities that inevitably result from a car-dependent society. This week there was a lot of family trauma. A 4-year-old girl loses her mother, father and sister. An 85-year-old man kills his presumed wife. An 18-year-old son kills his father.
- 4 Die on N.J. Turnpike as Truck Slams Into Cars (NYT)
- 4-Year-Old Orphaned in 6-Car Pileup Released from Hospital (AP via Newsday)
- Girl Will Be Raised by Aunt (Daily News)
- Off-Duty Cop on Motorcycle Dies in ‘Rage’ Wreck (Daily News)
- 2 Killed in Separate Hit-and-Runs in the Bronx and Queens (WNBC)
- Hit-and-Run at Utica and Av. N Leaves Woman Dead (NY Post)
- Motorcyclist Dies After Possible Hit-and-Run on the Saw Mill (Journal News)
- 1 Killed, 1 Injured As Car Runs Off NYS Thruway (Journal News)
- 18-Year-Old Kills Father on N.J. Turnpike (PennLive)
- NYC Man on Bicycle Killed in Maine (Bangor Daily News)
- Passenger Dies as Man, 85, Hits a Building (NJ Herald)
- Man Dies in N.J. Turnpike Limousine Accident (Journal News)
- Man, 22, Killed in Crash in North Brunswick, N.J. (Home News Trib)
- Seymour, Conn., Police Chief Honors Officer Killed in Crash (Conn. Post)
- 10-Year-Old on Bicycle Injured in Williamsburg Hit-and-Help (NY Post)
(Photo by Vincent Laforet for The New York Times)
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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