The Weekly Carnage
Additional Carnage From Last Week
8:24 AM EST on December 1, 2006
- Bronx: 3 Pals Die as Car Flips on I-95 and Bursts Into Flames (Daily News)
- Related: 4th Victim Dies in Hospital (Journal News)
- Manhattan: Car Crash Leads to Fatal Nose Job (Daily News)
- Mt. Sinai, L.I.: Pedestrian Killed in Hit-and-Run (Newsday)
- Related: Police Seek Driver (Newsday)
- NYC: Hit-and-Run Drivers on Rise (NY Post)
- Berkeley Heights, N.J.: DWI Charge After 2 Die in Crash (Star-Ledger)
- Stony Point, N.Y.: Driver Kills Pedestrian (Journal News)
- Chestnut Ridge, N.Y.: SUV Hits Utility Pole and 2,000 Lose Power (Journal News)
- Sparta, N.J.: Trucker Who Hit School Bus Pleads Guilty (AP via Star-Ledger)
- Hartford: DMV Was Trying to Suspend License of Deadly Driver (Newsday)
- Jets Star Apologizes for DWI Arrest After L.I. Crash (Newsday)
- Newark: Father and Sons Injured in Police Chase (Star-Ledger)
- Greenwich, Conn.: Crash Victim, 14, in Coma (Stamford Advocate)
- Mt. Kisco, N.Y.: Woman in Critical After Speeding (Journal News)
- Port Chester, N.Y.: Mechanic Wrecks Customer’s $500K Porche (Journal News)
- Ossining, N.Y.: Ex-Cop Gets Probation After DWI Crash (Journal News)
- Hastings, N.Y.: Woman Hospitalized After Hitting Tree (Journal News)
- White Plains: Elderly Pedestrians Struck (Journal News)
- Greenwich, Conn.: Teen Charged After Crash (Stamford Advocate)
Additional Carnage From Last Week
- Manhattan: 1 Dies as Car Hits Median and Bursts Into Flames (NY Post)
- Pleasantville, N.J.: 2 Die in Thanksgiving Parkway Crashes (Newsday)
- Related: Wet Weather Blamed (Star-Ledger)
- Valhalla, N.Y.: Boy Killed as Station Wagon Split in Two by Impact (WNBC 4)
- Brooklyn: Van Slams Into Pedestrian (Daily News)
- Manhattan: EMS Workers Hospitalized After Ambulance Hits Truck (WABC)
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Woodbury, N.Y.: Major Crash (Fox 5)
(Photo: News Channel 4)
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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