Cy Vance

City Council Member Dan Garodnick is asking NYPD for a "full investigation" into the weekend crash that killed Upper East Side pedestrian Rubin Baum.

Ian Clement, the U.S. Postal Service employee who drove a truck over cyclist Marilyn Dershowitz, then left the scene, has been found not guilty of hit-and-run by a Manhattan jury.

Two seniors have been killed by motorists in Manhattan and Brooklyn since Saturday. Both crashes were apparently precipitated by careless driving or negligence, according to reports, and both drivers were exonerated by NYPD.

The general public will probably never know if Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance was pressured into pursuing a case against the hit-and-run driver who killed Marilyn Dershowitz. But given the number of traffic death and injury cases that never see the inside of a courtroom, Ian Clement's attorney can viably employ such a seemingly irrelevant argument in his client's defense.

If you've suffered a life-altering injury, or even lost a loved one, at the hands of a negligent New York City driver, there usually isn't much the authorities can do for you. To hear NYPD tell it, the department barely has the resources to investigate traffic deaths, let alone the thousands of pedestrian and cyclist injuries that occur every year. District attorneys are so flummoxed by weak traffic laws that they can't muster the wherewithal to push for new ones. And while some on the City Council would like to help, their influence is limited.

A driver who left a trail of carnage through East Harlem, killing an innocent bystander, has been sentenced to as little as a year in jail after she escaped charges for taking a life.

On Tuesday, Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance announced the sentencing of Dyson Williams, the driver who killed Mary Celine Graham while attempting to evade police.

A man who plowed into a crowd of Harlem pedestrians while fleeing police, killing a nun, has pleaded guilty to murder.

Below is a statement from Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance, issued last week after James Lomma was cleared of manslaughter for the deaths of two workers in a 2008 crane collapse: