The Weekly Carnage
(Photo: Jeremy Lange for The New York Times)
9:57 AM EST on November 10, 2006
- Brooklyn: S.U.V. Hits Mother and 3 Children, Killing Boy (NYT)
- Related: Driver: I Didn’t Know I Killed Boy (Daily News)
- Related: Mother, in Coma, Clings to Life (NY Post)
- Carteret, N.J., Family of 3 Killed in SUV Crash in Pennsylvania (Star-Ledger)
- Putnam Valley, N.Y.: Girl, 13, Killed in SUV-Truck Crash (Journal News)
- Queens: 3 Dead in Four-Car Pileup (Daily News)
- Related: Epileptic Who Killed 3 Lied on License Renewal Form (NY Post)
- Manhattan: Woman, 81, in Critical After Being Hit by Tractor-Trailer (NY1)
- Related: Her Legs Were Ripped Off (Daily News)
- Yorktown, N.Y.: Pedestrian, 71, Hit by 2 Cars and Killed (Journal News)
- Brooklyn: Pedestrian, 75, Hit by 2 Cars and Killed (NYT)
- Suffolk County, L.I.: 3 Men Killed in Crashes (Newsday)
- Bronx: ConEd Worker, 40, Killed by Swerving Sedan (Daily News)
- Related: Worker’s Kin Demand Justice (NY Post)
- Brooklyn: Ambulance Overturns, Injuring 5 (Fox 5)
- Fossella Places Bat-Wielding Brother at Scene of Traffic Accident (S.I. Advance)
- Nassau County: Pirro Staffer & Husband Sued After Crash (NY Post)
- Bedford, N.Y.: Teen Who Killed Spared Jail After Pleading Drunk (Journal News)
- Brought to You by Toyota: Boy Killed By Car Backing Out of Driveway (7Online)
- Bronx: Woman, 61, Killed by Bus (NY Post)
- North Amityville, L.I.: Boy, 6, Killed by His School Bus (Newsday)
- Related: Mom Donates Boy’s Heart (AP via Newsday)
- Related: 17,000 Kids Injured in Bus-Related Accidents Each Year (Newsday)
- Cold Spring Harbor, L.I.: Man, 19, Killed in One-Car Crash (Newsday)
- Ocean County, N.J.: Brick Township Man Hits Tree, Dies (Star-Ledger)
- Yonkers: Pedestrian, 78, in Critical After Being Struck by Car (Journal News)
- Tompkins Cove, N.Y.: Family Remembers Trucker Who Died (Journal News)
- Bear Mountain, N.Y.: 1 Injured in Rollover (Journal News)
- Mamaroneck, N.Y.: 3 Seriously Injured as Car Hits House (Journal News)
- Greenburgh, N.Y.: Man, 31, Runs Off After Crashing Car (Journal News)
- Bloomfield, N.J.: Man to be Arraigned in Deadly Parkway Crash (Star-Ledger)
- Ramapo, N.Y.: 2 Men Arrested After Stealing and Crashing Van (Journal News)
(Photo: Jeremy Lange 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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