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NYC blamed the death a three-month-old girl on her parents after they sued the city for negligence for not impounding the car of the driver that hit them and for failing to address the dangers of a roadway.
It’s our December donation drive. Your gift helps us do these kinds of important stories. So please click here. Today we are publishing two contrasting op-eds by candidates for Manhattan District Attorney about how reckless drivers should be punished. One, by Liz Crotty, is here. Below is a counterpoint by Assembly Member Dan Quart. The city’s response to its epidemic of traffic violence has been woefully inadequate: In the vast majority of cases, a driver hits and kills a pedestrian or cyclist, calls the collision an “accident,” and faces few or no consequences. Take the case of Coop...
It’s our December donation drive. Your gift helps us do these kinds of stories. So please click here. With 211,038 crashes in the city in 2019, which killed 243 individuals and injured 61,265 (that’s an average of 578 crashes and 169 casualties a day, but who’s counting?), stopping reckless drivers from killing and maiming is an urgent public-health priority for the next mayor. So Streetsblog asked those who would lead us out of this crisis to detail their street-safety bona fides. Of the 11 we asked, 10 stepped up. (Ray McGuire was the exception.) This is the fourth of daily rollouts o...