Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about NYPD Crash Investigations

The corner where Allison Liao was killed was named in her honor. Photo: Families for Safe Streets

ANALYSIS: Is Jailing Killer Drivers the Only Way Forward for Street Safety?

By Julianne Cuba | Feb 9, 2021 | No Comments

The indictment of a killer driver earlier this year is a turning point in how prosecutors hold drivers accountable — but it also might be an inflection point as the safe-streets movement confronts the role of incarceration in making roadways safer. A deep dive.

Deputy Chief Chuck Scholl telling Pix11 that the driver "may or may not know this happened." Video: Pix11

Cops Must Stop Victim-Blaming Crash Victims, Brooklyn Prosecutor Says

By Julianne Cuba | Oct 28, 2020 | No Comments

Victim-blaming plays an outsized role in reducing the imperative among the political class to fix our streets.c

NYPD: Cyclist Killed on Ocean Parkway, 13th So Far This Year

By Julianne Cuba | Sep 10, 2020 | No Comments

A 29-year-old cyclist is dead after he was hit by a driver along a notorious Brooklyn speedway early Thursday morning, cops said, making him the 13th person killed on a bike so far this year, and the fourth this month ... so far.

Around and a Roundy: See No Evil, Report No Evil

By Streetsblog | Apr 6, 2020 | No Comments

Our cartoonist gets right to the heart of the problem with the NYPD's new policy to ignore minor car crashes.

UPDATED: NYPD Will No Longer Respond to Minor Car Crashes

By Gersh Kuntzman | Mar 30, 2020 | No Comments

The NYPD has made thousands of crashes on Staten Island simply disappear — and now is poised to do the same thing for the entire city.

The moment of impact on Ocean Parkway. Photo: NYC Scanner

Slow Down! Speed Demons Send Two People To Overwhelmed Hospitals

By Julianne Cuba | Mar 26, 2020 | No Comments

Paramedics rushed two people to already over-capacity emergency rooms on Wednesday evening, thanks to speeding drivers who refused to slow down amid a worsening health crisis.

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