Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Children

Carseats and the Limitations of American Safety Culture

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 18, 2015 | No Comments

One lesson they really hammer home, when you’re a new parent, is the importance of carseats. Hospitals won’t let you take a newborn home from the hospital unless you can show you have a carseat. And they warn you of this fact in Lamaze class and in all the parenting books and on all the […]

DA Ken Thompson: Felony Plea for Driver Who Killed Roshard Charles, 5

By Brad Aaron | Nov 11, 2015 | 10 Comments

A driver who fatally struck a little boy in Crown Heights and left the scene has pled guilty to felony hit-and-run. On March 16, 2014, 5-year-old Roshard Charles was walking with his mother, little brother, and a friend on Empire Boulevard between Nostrand Avenue and Rogers Avenue when a driver aiming for a parking spot backed into him with […]

Sidewalks Are No Sanctuary: Driver Jumps Curb, Kills 3 in the Bronx

By Brad Aaron | Nov 2, 2015 | 35 Comments

A motorist killed three people Saturday, including a 10-year-old girl, and injured three others when he drove onto a Bronx sidewalk crowded with trick-or-treaters. Police told the media Howard Unger, 52, of the Bronx, was driving west on Morris Park Avenue in a Dodge sedan at around 5 p.m. when he hit another vehicle from behind […]

Trick-or-Treaters Need Safe Streets, Not “Be Seen!” Tweets

By Brad Aaron | Oct 30, 2015 | 8 Comments

Wow Wednesday! Be #safe, be seen this Halloween! Dress up your costume with retroreflective material. pic.twitter.com/2FkyYfgWIp — Federal Highway Admn (@USDOTFHWA) October 28, 2015 Halloween is the worst day of the year for child pedestrian fatalities in the United States. A 2012 study by State Farm found that the average number of children killed by […]

Civil Suit Compels Man Who Killed Ally Liao to Stop Driving for 5 Years

By Brad Aaron | Oct 29, 2015 | 28 Comments

A bereaved family has done what NYPD, city district attorneys, and the New York State DMV usually fail to do: impose meaningful sanctions against a reckless driver, who in this case took the life of 3-year-old Allison Liao. Ahmad Abu-Zayedeh failed to yield the right of way when he struck Allison as she walked hand in […]

DA Robert Johnson: Manslaughter Charges for Cab Driver Who Killed Two

By Brad Aaron | Oct 20, 2015 | 2 Comments

District Attorney Robert Johnson has filed felony charges against the green cab driver who killed two people on a Bronx sidewalk. Johnson’s office told Gothamist Emilio Garcia was off his epilepsy medication when he hit 5-year-old Tierre Clark and Kadeem Brown, 25, at the Grand Concourse and E. 170th Street on March 20. Reports published after the crash […]

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