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NYPD: “No Criminality” When Drivers Collide, Kill Woman on Bronx Sidewalk
For the second time in less than a week, colliding motorists killed a person standing on a New York City sidewalk and NYPD filed no charges.
October 13, 2015
Richard Brown: Misdemeanor Plea for Accused Unlicensed Hit-and-Run Killer
In a deal with District Attorney Richard Brown, a driver charged with felony hit-and-run and driving without a license after fatally striking a Queens pedestrian has pled guilty to violating the city’s Right of Way Law.
September 30, 2015
Repeat Drunk Driver Pleads to Low-Level Felony for Killing Queens Pedestrian
A recidivist drunk driver who was charged with 10 felonies for killing a Queens pedestrian pled guilty to two low-level felony counts in a deal with District Attorney Richard Brown.
September 25, 2015
DOT: Drivers Injured 1,323 Pedestrians and Cyclists in August, and Killed 14
Twenty-one people died in New York City traffic in August, and 4,891 were injured, according to DOT’s Vision Zero View crash data map.
September 24, 2015
Bronx DA Johnson Files Manslaughter Charge for Cyclist’s Hit-and-Run Death
Bronx District Attorney Robert Johnson filed homicide charges against the man who allegedly killed cyclist Gabriela Aguilar-Vallinos in a hit-and-run crash earlier this month.
September 23, 2015
DA Ken Thompson: Charges for Punching Driver, No Charges for Killing Child
Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson is prosecuting the man accused of punching the driver who killed 8-year-old Jadann Williams in Flatbush, but Thompson filed no charges against the driver.
September 2, 2015
James Oddo Calls for Wider Roads Hours After SI Traffic Violence Claims Life
A UPS worker who lost a leg when a Staten Island driver slammed into him in April has died. NYPD and Staten Island prosecutors issued no summonses and filed no criminal charges in the case.
September 1, 2015
Driver Pleads to Felony in Hit-and-Run Death of Manhattan Pedestrian
A driver who killed a Union Square pedestrian pled guilty to a felony hit-and-run charge this week.
August 14, 2015