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Demonstrating that New York isn't the only place with traffic fatalities, this week we learn that roadside memorials to those killed in traffic crashes have become a business in Chicago. As for our area ...

By Aaron Donovan

10:17 AM EDT on September 1, 2006

Demonstrating that New York isn’t the only place with traffic fatalities, this week we learn that roadside memorials to those killed in traffic crashes have become a business in Chicago. As for our area …

Fatal Hit-and-Run Is Second in 9-Hour Span in Manhattan (NYT)
Marine Held in Chelsea Hit-and-Run (NY Post)
Hit-and-Run: Time For Serious Hearings and Legislation (Room Eight)
Nun Hit By Cadillac in Critical Condition (Daily News)
Sanitation Worker Killed When Truck Overturns on BQE (NYT)
Adirondack Northway Bus Crash Kills 5 (Daily News)
Bus’s Tires May Have Caused Crash (Gothamist)
Pedestrian Killed in Freeport, L.I. (Newsday)
Wyandanch, L.I., Man Shot While Cycling (Newsday)
Motorcycle Crash Kills Man in Uniondale, L.I. (Newsday)
Islanders Prospect Dies in Car Crash in Slovakia (Ice Hockey News)
Two Arrested for DWI in Fiery Crash in Coram, L.I. (7Online)
Critical Mass Rider Sees Pedestrian Hit by Car (Indymedia)
Car Smashes Into House in Mansfield, N.J. (NBC10)
Cinderblock Injures Car Passenger on N.J. Turnpike (NBC10)
Queens Carjacker Kidnaps Mom and Baby, Smashes Their Car (NY Post)

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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