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UPDATED: Out-of-Control Driver Hits and Kills 10-Year-Old Boy in Midwood
The carnage continues, as the city racks up its 147th traffic fatality this year.
September 10, 2019
Police Search For Fatal Hit-and-Run Driver Who Fled Queens Crash On Foot
A hit-and-run driver fled his car on foot after fatally striking a woman’s car early Tuesday morning in Queens, killing the 72-year-old passenger and sending the 56-year-old driver to the hospital.
September 10, 2019
Council Members: Mayor Was Just Mouthing Off on Helmets, Licenses
Remarks damaging to cycling may have originated with a journalist.
September 10, 2019
De Blasio Digs In on Helmet-Law Nonsense in Incoherent Radio Appearance
Cyclists have got to start considering how to protect themselves from the mayor.
September 6, 2019
STREETSBLOG INVESTIGATION: Hit-and-Run Drivers Injure Thousands — Why are So Few Ever Charged?
Factors include badly worded state law, flawed NYPD investigations, juries comprised of drivers, and, let's face it, a general sense that vehicular crimes are not treated with the same level of seriousness as other crimes.
September 3, 2019
Experts: Fix the Grand Street Bike Lane or Just Scrap It and Start Over!
The much-anticipated Grand Street bike lane, which was supposed to become a critical route for cyclists as part of the city's expanding bike network, is in total chaos and puts bikers in more danger than it helps them.
August 28, 2019
Eyes on the Street: Hey, DOT, About That Protected 26th Street Bike Lane…
It's not a protected bike lane if cars can park in it. Looking at you, West 26th Street.
August 27, 2019
Queens’s Next Top Prosecutor Dodges Whether She’d Boot CB Member Who Said Pedestrians ‘Deserve’ to Die
The Queens Beep still refuses to join her colleagues in condemning the community board member and city employee, who said at a public meeting that pedestrians “deserve” to die if they cross the street while looking at their phones.
August 7, 2019
Autonomous Vehicle CEO: Believe Me, This Will Be Better For Cities
Cars don’t hit and kill people — drivers do, so removing the people behind the wheel will be safer for everyone, says the CEO and co-founder of the latest company to roll out driverless cars.
August 7, 2019
AT LAST! Car-Loving De Blasio Calls For ‘Higher Penalties’ For Drivers Who Kill
"I think we need new laws that cause much more consequence if a motorist is negligent and they kill someone, even if it wasn't their intention. I think there have to be much higher penalties, that's an area we have to improve," the mayor said on Friday.
August 2, 2019
