The Weekly Carnage
Photo: Seth Taylor
8:24 AM EST on November 17, 2006
- Manhattan: SUV Loses Control and Rams Three at Herald Square (Daily News)
- Related: Teary SUV Driver Doesn’t Remember Crash (NY Post)
- Related: The Cost of Doing Business in Midtown (Streetsblog)
- Manhattan: Out-of-Control Car Hits 4 in Village (Gothamist)
- Related: No Charges for Driver Who Hit 4 Pedestrians (WCBS-TV)
- Brooklyn: SUV Driver Pins Cop Against Parked Car, Gets Shot (NY Times)
- Pilesgrove Twp., N.J.: Illegally Passing Pickup Truck Kills 5 (WCBS-TV)
- Related: Cops Say Reckless Driver Caused Deadly Wreck (WINS)
- Brooklyn: Man Shot to Death Over Parking Space; Suspects Flee in SUV (WINS)
- Queens: Grandmother, 75, Struck in Front of Grandkids (Daily News)
- Related: Kids Describe Crash (NY Post)
- Staten Island: Woman, 35, Killed, 4 Injured in Horrific Crash (WABC-TV)
- Brooklyn: College Student, 22, Hurled From Car, Dies (NY Post)
- Pearl River, N.Y.: FedEx Delivery Man Killed by Own Truck (Journal News)
- Hartford: 21-Vehicle Crash Shuts Down I-84 (Hartford Courant)
- Eagleswood Twp., N.J.: 19-Year-Old Killed in Hit-and-Run (AP via Newsday)
- Related: Man Charged, Crowd Shouts Obscenities (Asbury Park Press)
- Montebello, N.Y.: Man, 41, Dies After SUV Hits Pole (Journal News)
- Related: Man Was Mets Fan, Customer Service Rep (Journal News)
- Frelinghuysen Twp., N.J.: Car Hits Tree, 1 Dead (Star-Ledger)
- Orangeburg, N.Y.: 12 Hospitalized in Truck/Van Collision (Journal News)
- Related: Video of Aftermath (Journal News)
- Old Westbury, L.I.: 2 Charged With DWI in 2 Crashes (Newsday)
- Southampton, L.I.: Teen Pleads With Drunk Driving Mom Before Crash (Newsday)
- Trenton: Conviction in ‘Rage’ Crash That Left 1 Paralyzed (Trenton Times)
- Kinnelon, N.J.: Charges Upgraded in Crash That Killed 2 (Star-Ledger)
- Lawrence, N.J.: Firefighter Ejected From SUV (Trenton Times)
- New City, N.Y.: Police Chaplain’s Car Hit by Drunk Driver (Journal News)
- Yonkers: 6 Vehicle Pileup After Boat Falls Off Trailer (Journal News)
- Upper Grandview, N.Y.: SUV Hits Pole, Flips, Catches Fire (Journal News)
- Islip, L.I.: Fire Truck Rear Ends Other Fire Truck at Airport (Newsday)
Photo: Seth Taylor
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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