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NYC Drivers Injured 1,023 Pedestrians and Cyclists in April, and Killed Eight
Eighteen people died in New York City traffic in April, and 4,424 were injured, according to City Hall’s Vision Zero View crash data map. Through the first four months of 2017, City Hall reported 38 pedestrians and cyclists killed by city motorists and 4,314 injured, compared to 44 deaths and 4,685 injuries in the first four months of 2016.
May 22, 2017
NYC Drivers Injured 1,083 Pedestrians and Cyclists in March, and Killed 12
Citywide, 11 pedestrians and one cyclist were fatally struck by drivers last month. Among the victims were Joseph Ranieri, Carmen Velez, Ping Xie, Jacob Bavdaz, Danielle Leathers, Skylar Perkins, an unnamed male pedestrian in Manhattan, and two unnamed female pedestrians in Brooklyn.
April 25, 2017
NYC Drivers Injured 950 Pedestrians and Cyclists in February, and Killed 5
Nineteen pedestrians and cyclists were killed by city motorists through February, and 2,186 injured, compared to 26 deaths and 2,296 injuries in the first two months of 2016.
March 22, 2017
Map the Dangerous Streets in Your Neighborhood With This New Tool
The street safety advocates at Hell's Kitchen-based Chekpeds have relaunched NYC Crash Mapper, a tool lets you drill down on traffic crash data in your neighborhood, community board, or City Council district. The new Crash Mapper interface is a step up from City Hall's Vision Zero View tool, which launched in 2014, in some important ways.
March 8, 2017
NYC Traffic Deaths Are Falling, But Not Fast Enough
While the de Blasio administrations's traffic safety efforts are working, the mayor and his agencies aren't acting decisively enough to reach the Vision Zero goal of eliminating traffic deaths by 2024.
January 11, 2017
Reinvent Albany: NYPD Needs to Open Up Its Traffic Summons Data
NYPD's TrafficStat site merely maps data that was already available and lacks data about where police are enforcing traffic laws, which the agency has refused to release for years.
December 6, 2016
City Hall Puts NYPD’s TrafficStat Crash-Mapping Tool Online
The city will make "TrafficStat," NYPD's tool for mapping and analyzing traffic collision data, available online to the public. It's an improvement but lacks one very important type of information -- data about where police are enforcing traffic laws.
November 29, 2016
NYC Drivers Injured 1,457 Pedestrians and Cyclists in October, and Killed 10
Nineteen people died in New York City traffic in October, and 5,065 were injured, according to City Hall’s Vision Zero View crash data map.
November 28, 2016
NYC Traffic Deaths Fell in First Five Months of 2016
Traffic fatalities in NYC declined 11 percent through the end of May compared to the same period last year, according to NYPD crash data.
June 27, 2016
NYC Drivers Injured 1,191 Pedestrians and Cyclists, and Killed 13, in February
Eighteen people died in New York City traffic in February, and 3,770 were injured, according to Mayor de Blasio's Vision Zero View crash data map.
March 15, 2016