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UPDATED: NYPD Will No Longer Respond to Minor Car Crashes
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.
March 30, 2020
Slow Down! Speed Demons Send Two People To Overwhelmed Hospitals
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.
March 26, 2020
Another Senior Is Killed By Uncharged Driver On Bell Boulevard
Another senior citizen has been run over and killed on Bell Boulevard in Queens — and the driver was once again not charged.
February 24, 2020
NYPD Blames Two Victims For Their Own Deaths, Tells Pedestrians to Be Careful
Why is Brooklyn South Chief Charles Scholl blaming victims and exonerating drivers? Is he a law enforcement officer or just a schoolhouse scold?
January 16, 2020
CYCLE OF RAGE: Crash Response Reveals that Cops Are Just So Badly Trained
More evidence that police officers are poorly trained and disinclined to see drivers as a culprit in the criminal or civil offense of injuring or killing someone with a motor vehicle.
January 15, 2020
Cops Blame ‘Medical Episode’ For Chain Reaction Crash That Injures 3 Pedestrians
Like the magic words "I didn't see him," claiming some kind of "medical episode" is often times a way for drivers to get off scot-free.
December 8, 2019
Police Searching For Killer Car Thief
Early reports were wrong: the bad guy who stole a car in Queens and then left it to run over a woman remains at large.
November 22, 2019
Cyclist: I Was Nearly Murdered by a Driver — Then Cops Traumatized Me All Over Again
A cautionary (and all-too-common) tale...
November 7, 2019
Vision Zero Blind Spot: ‘Georgia’ Driver Who Killed Man on Flatbush is a Serial Speeder
Getting to see an official police report reveals the essential shoddiness of crash investigations — and how assumptions need to be challenged.
October 31, 2019
Trucker With Suspended License Killed a Cyclist — And Got Only Another Suspended License
The father of the slain cyclist, 45-year-old Aaron Padwee, called it “a joke,” that will clearly do nothing to keep driver Agustin Osorio-Torres off the road.
October 28, 2019
