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By Ben Fried

9:01 AM EDT on July 21, 2009

Feds Covered Up Research on Dangers of Cellphone Use While Driving (NYT)
Hit-and-Run SUV Driver Kills Mother of Two Crossing Amsterdam at 145th (News)
Drivers With Suspended Licenses Get Right Back Behind the Wheel, Speed and Kill (Gothamist)
Livery Car Crashes Into Washington Heights Florist After Collision With Van (News, Post)
Self-Defense of Fare Hike Four: “We’re Not Hitler” (News, Post)
Someone, Please, Primary These Guys — They’re Vulnerable (News, News)
Traffic Down on MTA’s Tolled Crossings for 19th Consecutive Month (Post)
NJTransit Opens a Rail Spur to the Meadowlands (WNYC)
What If Rail Travel Was Only as Safe as Driving? (Infrastructurist)
Detroit Planners Study Car-Deer Crashes More Than Car-Ped Crashes (M-Bike via Streetsblog.net)

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Ben Fried

Ben Fried started as a Streetsblog reporter in 2008 and led the site as editor-in-chief from 2010 to 2018. He lives in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, with his wife.

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