New York Could Be First To Adopt ‘Crash Victims Bill of Rights’
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"There's just a huge need for it," said Amy Cohen of the advocacy group, Families for Safe Streets.
Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Families for Safe Streets
Trucker Who Killed 3-Year-Old Boy In Harlem Blames Child’s Mother For Not Holding His Hand
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“It’s being made out like I did something wrong, I did not,” the killer driver told Streetsblog. “The mother should have had the child in her hand.”
Lander ‘Reckless Driver’ Bill Will Seize Far Fewer Cars Than Originally Thought
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Any combination of five red light or speeding tickets were originally enough to get your car seized. Now it's five red light tickets or 15 speeding tickets.
Wednesday’s Headlines: Road Violence is a Public Health Emergency Edition
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If any one group deserves an award for alerting city officials about the danger of road violence, it is Families for Safe Streets. Plus the other news from yesterday.
City Not Using Camera Tickets to Crack Down on Reckless Cabbies
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The Taxi and Limousine Commission claims it does not have the authority to take cabbies off the road for multiple camera-issued speeding tickets. But others say it does.
NYPD: Two People Killed By Truck Drivers Within Hours of Each Other on Tuesday
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Two people were killed in as many hours by the drivers of massive trucks on Tuesday morning — one a 10-year-old boy and the other an elderly woman, a pattern of carnage that picks up where last year left off.