The Weekly Carnage
11:27 AM EST on December 15, 2006
Fatal Crashes (9 Dead This Week)
- Manhattan: Teenage Carjacker Dies in Bloody Crash (Daily News)
- Related: Wild Details (Gothamist)
- Somers, N.Y.: Mother and Infant Die After Crash and Caesarean (AP via Newsday)
- Related: Other Driver, 84, Also Died (Journal News)
- Related: Shock After 2 Deaths at Hospital (Journal News)
- Related: Many Questions in Aftermath (Journal News)
- Rocky Mount, N.C.: Former Queens Couple Crashes and Drowns (NY Post)
- Related: Couple to Be Buried in Queens (Daily News)
- Related: Help Never Came (Daily News)
- Related: Furious Kin Say Cops Should Have Found Car Sooner (NY Post)
- Eastchester, N.Y.: Woman Killed in Lord & Taylor Parking Lot (Journal News)
- Related: Police Identify Victim (Journal News)
- Newark: Officer Dies in Turnpike Crash (Newsday)
- Hastings, N.Y.: Motorist Killed in Collision With Bus (Journal News)
Injuries and Arrests
- Sparta, N.J.: SUV Driver, Attending Baby, Hits Teenager (Star-Ledger)
- Manhattan: Transverse Road Cyclist in Serious Condition (Streetsblog)
- Morristown, N.J.: Pickle Truck Flips, Causing Rush-Hour Nightmare (Star-Ledger)
- Riverhead, L.I.: Two Cops Hurt as Car Avoids Deer and Flips (Newsday)
- Uniondale, L.I.: Officer Saves Man From Burning Wreckage (Newsday)
- East End, L.I.: A 2-Car Crash From DWI; DUI Driver Flees Cops (Newsday)
- Scarsdale, N.Y.: 1 Injured as Car and Empty School Bus Collide (Journal News)
- Somers, N.Y.: Children Feared for Life But Avoided a Crash (Journal News)
- Hudson Valley: Police Charge 5 With DWI (Journal News)
Following Up
- Brooklyn: Michael Daly on Death of Andry Vega, 6 (Daily News)
- Related: Tears for a Brother (Daily News)
- Related: 6-Year-Old Fatally Hit by Truck in Brooklyn (Streetsblog)
- New Rochelle: Claim: Fatal Throw Related to Argument Over Sex (Journal News)
- Shelton, Conn.: Zoning Commish Who Died Had Been in Jail (Conn Post)
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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