The Weekly Carnage

The Weekly Carnage is a Friday round-up of motor vehicle mayhem
across the five boroughs and beyond. For more on the origins and purpose of this
column, please read About the Weekly Carnage.

Consuela Sanchez, mother of 13, was killed by a city bus driver on May 7 as she pushed a shopping cart across an Ozone Park intersection. No charged were filed. Photo via Daily News

Fatal Crashes (1 Killed This Week, 51 This Year, 8 Drivers Charged*)

• Ozone Park: Consuela Sanchez, 81, Struck and Killed by Q10 Bus Driver at Lefferts and Rockaway Boulevards; No Charges Filed (News, Post)

A cyclist was hit by the driver of an MTA express bus near Union Square on May 13. Photo: Gothamist

Injuries, Arrests and Property Damage

• Union Square: Cyclist Hit, Seriously Injured by Driver of Express Bus (Gothamist)
• Upper West Side: Elderly Pedestrian Hurt When Livery Driver Jumps Curb (Streetsblog)
• Canarsie: 6 Reported Injured, 3 Seriously, in City Bus Crash (WCBS)
• Brooklyn: Cyclist Seriously Hurt in May 3 Crash (Bike Blog NYC)
• SI: 100 MPH NYPD Chase Ends With Jeep Resting on Lawn, 1 of 9 DWI Arrests (Advance)
• SI: Man Trying to Torch Wife’s SUV Burns Bystander (Post Blotter)
• St. Albans: Man Racing BMW Crashes Into Second Car, Seriously Injuring 1 (YourNabe)
• Castleton Corners: Collision Leaves School Bus Overturned; No Kids Inside (Advance)
• Arden Hills: Speeding Driver Crashes Through Fence, Hits Parked Tractor-Trailer (Advance)
• Tompkinsville: 3 Hurt When Driver Hits Gas Station (Advance)
• Fort Wadsworth: Drunk Driver Plows Into SUV, Injuring 4 (Post Blotter)
• Crown Heights: Teen Drives Stolen Car Onto Sidewalk (Post)
• SI: Korean War Veterans Memorial Parkway Crash Injures 1 (Advance)
• Dongan Hills: Hylan Blvd Near-Collision Sends Driver Into Utility Pole (Advance)
• Dongan Hills: Partially Clothed Woman Almost Hits Cop Car, Charged With DWI (Post Blotter)
• Grant City: Reporter Happens on Scene of Two-Car Crash, Wonders Where Cops Are (Advance)

Following Up

• Midwood: Eight-Year-Old Boy Hit on His Way to School Expected to Recover (WINS, News, Post)
• Astoria: Unknown Pedestrian Killed in November 2009 Identified as Konstantinos Stayropoulos (YN)

Image via Daily News

In the Region, Out of Town

• West Babylon: Wife Dumps Husband From Hood of Moving Truck, Fracturing His Skull (Post, WINS)
• Irving, NY: Woman Assaults Sleeping Driver, Tries to Push Parked Car Off Cliff (AP)
• Lakewood, NJ: Off-Duty Cop Killed in Hit-and-Run Motorcycle Collision (WINS)
• Edison, NJ: 17 Hurt in School Bus Crash (WCBS)
• Authorities Helpless to Stop Meadowlands Pedestrian Casualties (NNJ.com, WINS)
• Australian Father Keeps Baby From Harm’s Way as He’s Hit by Elderly Driver (News)

Other News

• New York Entrepreneur Develops WiFi-Equipped Breathalyzer (Reuters)
• City Garbage Trucks Have Injured 294 People in the Last Three Years (Post)
• Crossing Guards Hired to “Manage” Peds Endangered by West Street Traffic (Tri Trib)
• Hyundai OK Ridiculing Dangerous Teen Drivers, But What About Seniors? (538)
• USA Today Debates With Itself Over Traffic Camera Safety
• Cameras That Prevent Crashes: Bad; Cams That Help Motorists After Crashes: Good (SPTimes)
• Australian Researchers Laud Breath Tests for Pedestrians (Freakonomics)
• Car Karaoke App? That Lets Drivers Listen to One Another? Why the Hell Not? (Wheels)

* Based on latest available reports