The Weekly Carnage is a Friday round-up of motor vehicle violence across the five boroughs and beyond. For more on the origins and purpose of this column, please read About the Weekly Carnage.
Fatal Crashes (2 killed this week, 132 this year, 19 drivers charged*)
Brownsville: Theauther Love, 87, Hit By Officer Driving NYPD Traffic Squad Car (News, Post, Streetsblog)
East Flatbush: Driver Kills David John Williams, 63, Crossing Street; No Charges (News)
Injuries, Arrests and Property Damage
Grasmere: Driver Rear-Ends Car; Witnesses Report Driver Died at the Scene (Advance)
Harlem: NYPD Van Overturns During Chase, Trapping Officers Inside (DNAinfo)
A cop laughed that a normal person is only worth $11,000 — and that figure was partly due to his racism, but also how little we value the lives of people on foot.
Covid-19 transformed many U.S. cities' approach to sustainable transportation forever. But how did it transform the lives of sustainable transportation advocates who developed lasting symptoms from the disease?
The Department of Transportation wants the Dangerous Vehicle Abatement Program to simply expire in part because it did not dramatically improve safety among these worst-of-the-worst drivers and led to a tiny number of vehicle seizures.