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When Media Outlets Cover Delivery Cyclists, They Rarely Talk to Them
NYC's mostly-immigrant food delivery cyclists don't have it easy, working on car-centric streets through all sorts of weather, all while under pressure to make their deliveries as quickly as possible.
July 29, 2016
Vox Pulls Back the Curtain on “Scam” to Save Lives With Red Light Cameras
You can usually count on Vox for accurate, research-based explainers of public policy issues. That's why the new Vox video on red light cameras is so monumentally disappointing.
July 19, 2016
Victim-Blaming Commences After Bruckner Boulevard Claims Another Life
A motorist struck and killed a man last night on Bruckner Boulevard, a Bronx street designed to facilitate speeding and one of the borough's most dangerous places to walk.
July 11, 2016
How to Counter the Victim-Blaming Impulse After a Traffic Crash
When a driver strikes someone walking or biking, the tendency to blame the victim runs deep. Ask Raquel Nelson, who lost her young son to a hit-and-run driver, then got convicted for vehicular homicide, even though she was just trying to walk across the street with her children from a bus stop to her home. Or witness the reaction to the death of Amanda Phillips, who was struck by a truck driver while biking in Boston last week.
June 27, 2016
Truck Driver Kills Cyclist Leah Sylvain in Bushwick — Victim-Blaming Ensues
A fuel truck driver struck and killed Leah Sylvain, 27, as she was biking on Evergreen Avenue in Bushwick this morning.
June 7, 2016
Driver Kills Toddler in the Bronx as NYPD and the Press Declare “Accident”
Update: WPIX identified the victim as Mariam Dansoko. WPIX and other outlets are reporting that the driver, a 21-year-old man, was turning left from Gerard Avenue onto E. 164th Street when he hit her.
May 16, 2016
Associated Press Cautions Journalists That Crashes Aren’t Always “Accidents”
The Associated Press has tweaked its guidance for journalists about when to call traffic collisions "accidents."
April 4, 2016
Inside the Latest “Distracted Pedestrians” Con
Hospital records from 2014 showed that distracted walking accounted for 78% of pedestrian injuries throughout the United States.
March 31, 2016