The Weekly Carnage
Fatal Crashes (19 Dead This Week; 5 Dead This Year)
9:29 AM EST on January 5, 2007
Fatal Crashes (19 Dead This Week; 5 Dead This Year)
- New Jersey: 9 Die Across State in a Long Weekend of Crashes (Star-Ledger)
- Related: NYC Officer, 2 Daughters Killed as SUV Veers Off Highway (Daily News)
- Related: SUV Rams Sedan, Killing 2 in North Bergen (NYT)
- Bronx: Man Drives SUV Into Crowd, Kills Boxer, Flees (NYT)
- Related: Victim Savored Boxing’s Hard-Knock Life (NYT)
- Queens: Man Racing a Car Flips It, Dies in an ‘Accident’ (NYT)
- Queens: Woman Leaving Funeral Dies in Crash (Daily News)
- Plainsboro, N.J.: Man in Wrong-Way Wreck Before Girlfriend’s Eyes (Star-Ledger)
- Old Bridge, N.J.: Woman, 21, Killed Backing Out of Driveway (Star-Ledger)
- N. Amityville, L.I.: Man Veers Off Parkway, Hits Trees (Newsday)
- Lynbrook, L.I.: Driver Strikes Dark-Clothed Teen Who Ran Into Street (Newsday)
- Peekskill, N.Y.: 5 Orphaned in Ecuador After Father is Hit by Car (Journal News)
- Related: Offers of Help for 5 Children (Journal News)
- Southampton, L.I.: Woman, 21, Strikes Tree and Is Ejected From SUV (Newsday)
- Nashua, N.H.: Julliard Student/Actor Killed in Crash With Tree (Wow Report)
Injuries, Arrests & Property Damage
- Queens: Mother of Six Clings to Life After SUV Veers on L.I.E. (Daily News)
- Related Man Flees on Foot, Is Charged (NYT)
- Related: Friends Tackle DWI Driver (Gothamist)
- Related: Assault Charges for Driver (NY Post)
- Related: Drunk Driving and Criminal Weapons Charges for Driver (Journal News)
- White Plains, N.Y.: Speeding Police Cruiser Hits Car, Killing Dog (Journal News)
- Riverhead, L.I.: Teenager on Bicycle Injured in Hit-and-Run (Newsday)
- Kings Park, L.I.: Hit-and-Run Driver Breaks Man’s Leg and Ribs (Newsday)
- Hudson Valley: Spate of Car Accidents Mars New Year’s (Journal News)
- Old Westbury, L.I.: Man Arrested After Crash Injures Motorist (Newsday, scroll)
- Queens: Tanker Leaks Oil During Morning Rush (NY1)
Following Up
- Greenburgh, N.Y.: Driver Apologizes for Road Rage Injury to Rapper (J N)
- Farmingdale, L.I.: Whole Family Shaken When Car Crashed Into House (Newsday)
- Related: Cops’ Tough Call on Car Chases (Newsday)
- Mineola, L.I.: Jurors in Drunken-Driving Trial May Be Queried in Verdict (NYT)
- Staten Island: Funeral Arrangements Made for Hit-and-Run Victim (S.I. Advance)
- Related: Kin Say Victim Was Retreiving a Phone From Boyfriend (S.I. Advance)
- Mt. Sinai, L.I.: Mourners Remember 16-Year-Old Who Loved to Sing (Newsday)
- Jersey City: Mourners Remember Officers Who Died in Plunge (Star-Ledger)
Trends
- Trenton: Auto Injury Treatments May Get Price Caps (Star-Ledger)
- New York State: New Rules Limit Crash Lawyer Advertising (Journal News)
- Staten Island: D.A. Gets Tough on DWI: 2nd Offense Leads to Jail (S.I. Advance)
- Sayreville, N.J.: Lights Activated at Accident-Prone Intersection (Star-Ledger)
Bizarre
- Bay Shore, L.I.: Man Involved in Fender-Bender Disappears (Newsday)
- Edison, N.J.: Cop Who Ran Nude From Off-Duty Crash Keeps Job (Star-Ledger)
Opinion
- Vow to Be a Kinder, Gentler Commuter (Journal News)
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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