The Weekly Carnage
(Photo by Victor Alcorn/Newsday)
12:31 PM EDT on October 6, 2006
- Designated Driver Hits Utility Pole, Dies (Newsday)
- Driver, 25, Hears DWI Charges in Triple-Fatal Crash (Star-Ledger)
- Family Raises $200K to Bails Out Driver After Deadly Accident (Star-Ledger)
- Van Accident Kills Parents, but Police Save Their Children (NYT)
- Pedestrian Killed by Minivan Driver in Boerum Hill (Gothamist)
- Pedestrian Struck and Killed in Old Bridge, N.J. (Star-Ledger)
- Car Spins Out of Control, Pins Pedestrian Against Window (NYT)
- Mother Struck and Killed by Daughter in Yonkers (Journal News)
- 1 Killed, 2 Hurt as Car Veers Off Road in Suffolk County (NYT)
- 272 Died Last Year on Nassau and Suffolk County Roads (Newsday)
- Boy, 8, Hit by Car in Brooklyn (NY Post)
- Man Dies in Crash on Parkway Ramp (Star-Ledger)
- Hauppauge Woman Killed in Crash (Newsday)
- Colts Neck, N.J., Teenager Dies in Crash (Star-Ledger)
- Yonkers Passenger Struck and Killed Near Deegan (Journal News)
- Motorcyclist Killed in Brooklyn Crash (NYT)
- Woman Dies in Queens Motorcycle Crash (Daily News)
- 4 Vehicles Crash After Truck Gets Stuck Under Bridge (Journal News)
- New Jersey Boy, 13, in Critical After Bike Hits Oncoming Car (Star-Ledger)
- Couple Hurt as Car Hits Tree in Mountainside, N.J. (Star-Ledger)
- Driver Who Hit Pedestrian in Greenburgh May Have Had Seizure (Journal News)
- June Hit-and-Run in Medford, L.I., Still Unsolved (Newsday)
- Teen Driver Cleared After Striking Pedestrian in Oct. ’05 (Stamford Advocate)
- Truck Strikes Minivan in Congers, N.Y. (Journal News)
(Photo by Victor Alcorn/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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