The Weekly Carnage
This week we have two separate instances of children killed horsing around on the street. Kids, be careful out there. Also, it seems like we've had a lot of bus crashes lately.
11:46 AM EDT on September 8, 2006
This week we have two separate instances of children killed horsing around on the street. Kids, be careful out there. Also, it seems like we’ve had a lot of bus crashes lately.
- Queens Woman, 67, Killed in Hit-and-Run (Daily News)
- Boy, 13, on Way to School Seriously Injured by Bus in Queens (NYT)
- Playful Shove Nearly Cost the Boy His Life (Newsday)
- Boy, 11, Is Killed Crossing Street in Brooklyn (Daily News)
- Boy, 11, Horsing Around, Is Killed by a Bus in Queens (Daily News)
- Mother Cries in Agony Upon Visiting Roadside Memorial (Daily News)
- 1 Killed, 3 Injured in Brooklyn Crash (NYT)
- Boy Killed by Fire Truck in Elmhurst, Queens (Newsday)
- Church Mourns Loss of Boy, 5, Hit by Fire Truck (Newsday)
- Car Crashes Into Garbage Truck, Killing Woman (Newsday)
- Off-Duty Connecticut Officer Dies in One-Car Accident (Stam. Advocate)
- Rig Flips on Gowanus, Killing 1 and Injuring 1 (Daily News)
- Long Island’s Crash-Prone Route 110 to Be Widened (NYT)
- Officer Paralyzed by ATV Receives $14.5 Million (Newsday)
- Car Ploughs Into Bridgeport Students as Driver Loses Control (Conn. Post)
- 23 Hurt as Bus and Truck Collide (AP via Newsday)
- Parents Seek SUV Safety Changes (Newsday)
- 34 Hurt When Fung Wah Bus Rolls Over (AP via Newsday)
- Speed Cited as a Factor in Rollover (NY1)
- Fung Wah Manager Defends Company After Crash Hurts 34 (NY1)
- Man Hit by Van Critical at Hospital (Daily News)
- Was Deadly Wrong-Way DWI Crash a Murder? (Newsday)
- Alcohol Not a Factor in Adirondack Northway Bus Crash (AP via Newsday)
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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