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 (9 killed this week, 81 this year, 6 drivers charged*)
Willets Point: Cyclist Mireya Gomez, 50, Struck By Driver on Roosevelt Avenue; No Charges (Streetsblog)
Kips Bay: 76-Year-Old Man in Wheelchair Hit Crossing East 23rd St.; "No Criminality" (DNA)
Richmond Hill: Rohan Singh, 47, Run Down By Hit-and-Run Driver (Times Ledger)
Sunnyside: Gabriel Hernandez, 24, Waiting to Cross Street, Hit By Drunk Cabbie; Driver Faces Homicide Charges (Post, DNA)
Bay Ridge: Adam Nicholson, 40, Crashes SUV Into MTA Bus, Utility Pole; 3-Year-Old in Backseat Unharmed (DNA)
Hunts Point: Raylin Heredia-Delacruz, 23, Killed After Crashing Motorcycle Into Bus (News)
Jackson Heights: Motorcyclist and Passenger Killed in Collision With MTA Bus (DNA)
Bushwick: Motorcyclist Barron Sanders, 47, Crashes Into Vehicle Four Blocks From Home (DNA)
UES: Elderly Man on Crutches Struck By Truck Driver While Crossing 1st Ave. (Post, City Room)**
Hell's Kitchen: 23-Year-Old Pedestrian Struck By Private Garbage Truck; "No Criminality" (Gothamist)**
Sheepshead Bay: Jamal Iqbal, 23, Killed in Head-On Crash With Driver Going 90 MPH; Driver Charged With Homicide (Post, News)**
East Flatbush: 32-Year-Old Passenger Killed in Drunk Driving Crash (Post Blotter)**
Rohan Singh was fatally struck by a hit-and-run driver in Richmond Hill on the morning of May 13. Photo: ##http://www.timesledger.com/stories/2012/20/richhillhitandrun_fh_2012_05_17_q.html##Times Ledger##
Injuries, Arrests and Property Damage
UWS: Driver Hits 20-Year-Old Pedestrian, Leaving Him in Traumatic Arrest (DNA)
Tremont: Pedestrian Hit at East Tremont Ave. and Third Ave. (Streetsblog)
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.
The capitulation on Fordham Road is the latest episode in which the mayor has delayed or watered down a transportation project in deference to powerful interests.
That headline above is a reference to the last line of James Joyce's Ulysses, which we won't pretend to have read. But we have that ... and other news.