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Wednesday’s Headlines: Twisted Statistics Edition
Cyclist deaths hit a 23-year high in 2023 — but if you ask the New York Times, that grim statistic comes with a big asterisk. Plus more news.
EXCLUSIVE: Killer Driver Will Get Probation After Completing ‘Restorative Justice’ Course
The deal will allow Jorge Gonzalez-Cadme to avoid jail and keep driving, despite killing education pioneer Norman Fruchter.
Cyclist Killed After Being Doored Into Traffic on Unsafe Brooklyn Street in Already Violent Year
Broadway's danger is well known to DOT, which named it a Vision Zero Priority Corridor — yet the agency did nothing.
Greenpoint Woman Dies from Injuries Sustained in Crash
The driver's RAM truck had been nabbed by city speed cameras 26 times since 2018, including nine times last year.
Serious Crash in Greenpoint Again Reveals Flaws in City Design, Enforcement Against Reckless Drivers
A woman was seriously injured — and is clinging to life — because a driver with a long record of recklessness slammed into her on a Greenpoint Street as she came home with milk.
Woman Fatally Struck By Hit-and-Run Driver in Queens
It's the latest death in an already bloody year on New York City streets.
NYPD Hands Out ‘Vision Zero’ Awards After 257 People Were Killed and 40,000 Injured Last Year
Police brass on Friday said that 70 of its 77 precincts — or 91 percent — failed to achieve Vision Zero in 2023, yet the agency handed out awards anyway.
Driver Who Killed 7-Year-Old Gets Probation After DA Katz Quietly Downgraded Charges
A child is dead — but this driver walked.
A Pedestrian Was Killed in Dyker Heights By a Driver With a Long Record of Recklessness
This driver lived up to his vanity plate.
Police Nab One Half of Hit-and-Run Duo Who Killed Pedestrian in Queens Last Year
Cops cuffed a hit-and-run driver who fatally struck a 68-year-old pedestrian in Queens late last year. The second driver who hit the victim before also fleeing the scene is still on the loose.
