Is this the first time that someone has been banned to drive in NY state indefinitely after killing someone?

This should be the standard.

So she got a rare slap on the wrist then.

Madness how she will be able to re-apply. Once you kill someone due to reckless driving, your driver’s license should be revoked indefinitely. We have plenty of alternative modes of transportation to get around on in NYC.

NYPD did not do their due diligence and when family and friends took it upon themselves to do the work intended for the police, an ALJ found and banned driving privileges statewide for the accused motorist. I find this disturbing, know that there could a countless potential others.

New Police Commissioner O’Neill should be made aware of this.

Police said Brenner was biking against traffic
trying to cross the ramp when Venedam struck him, an explanation that
his friends and family found unlikely.

Video evidence later contradicted NYPD’s account, showing Brenner was not on the roadway

Where was he?

A video of the crash shows the actress trailing close behind a car that veered out of the way to avoid Brenner, then she smashed into the cyclist in the safety triangle as he tried to make his way to a bike path on the other side of the entrance ramp.”

Where were these two cars that they weren’t on the roadway? They can’t have been, because a car swerving to avoid someone not on the roadway can’t be on the roadway, and a car that hits someone not on the roadway can’t be on the roadway.

Is the video available somewhere? Or is there a sketch of what happened? I’m a little confused.

Venedam drove down the street and veered across a
safety triangle in order to make it back on to the
BQE

Did she drive over the paint or the concrete? Look at the angle, how fast could someone swerve over the concrete? Is the painted triangle not par of the roadway?

http://i.imgur.com/Px4NttP.jpg

Was he biking down the sidewalk, then planned to ride or walk across the uncontrolled entrance ramp that has no traffic light or crosswalk or stop sign or anything, then jump the jersey barrier to get into the bikeway? And the driver tried to switch lanes at the last second to go onto the highway, drove over the paint and hit the guy with his bike in the middle of the highway on ramp? Then where was the car that swerved to avoid Brenner?

I think it gets even more complicated. I read had swerved to avoid being hit by a different car. Which is how he ended up in that safety triangle. There is a lot of red light running at the traffic signal right before that BQE entrance. There is also poor lighting under the bridge and stop line and crosswalk that are completely faded away. It’s really atrocious how poor the conditions are at an intersection that sees 6000+ cyclist a day.

The signage and design of the painted markings leading to the protected lanes in that area are piss-poor. Matthew should never have been in that triangle–he should have been safely in the protected bike lane that runs down the middle of Sands Street or on the dedicated bike ramp to the Manhattan Bridge.

I suppose it’s possible he knew better and was being a daredevil, but the fact that he was in such an exposed position when safer alternatives were readily available, plus my own experience of getting confused in this area, says to me that there is a serious design flaw here. The local CB should press for a study.

In its investigation, NYPD determined that no one died and no foul play existed. Despite there being clear evidence to the contrary a spokesman reiterated, ‘Whatcha gonna do abot it?’

From what I understand, he was on the zebra-stripes when she swerved into him from the travel lane to get onto the ramp at the last minute. I can’t say I fully understand the prior car swerving around him.

Thank you DMV administrative judge Rinaldi for doing the just thing and for protecting public safety. THANK YOU