Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Curb Jumping

No Homicide Charge for Unlicensed Curb-Jumping Driver Who Killed SI Woman

By Brad Aaron | Jul 25, 2014 | 14 Comments

A motorist who crashed on a Staten Island sidewalk was charged by District Attorney Dan Donovan with driving without a license and drug possession, but not for killing one pedestrian and hospitalizing another. On the afternoon of June 9, a motorist jumped the curb and hit 31-year-old Christal Aliotta and her 20-year-old cousin Stephanie Canecchio as they walked […]

Sidewalk-Jumping Driver Kills One Pedestrian, Injures Another in Great Kills

By Brad Aaron | Jun 9, 2014 | 5 Comments

Update: The victim who died in this crash was identified as Christal Aliotta, 31. As of Tuesday the driver, 23-year-old Michael Fox, was charged with aggravated unlicensed operation and drug possession, according to the Advance. Police say charges are pending after a curb-jumping driver killed one pedestrian and injured another in Staten Island this afternoon. At […]

Curb-Jumping Drivers in Three Crashes Injured 15 People This Morning

By Brad Aaron | May 19, 2014 | 5 Comments

Curb-jumping motorists were involved in at least three crashes this morning, resulting in 15 injuries, including a pedestrian who was hit on a Queens sidewalk. The driver of a Honda pickup truck crashed into the front yard of a house at 49-33 Utopia Parkway at around 5:40 this morning, critically injuring a pedestrian, according to FDNY […]

As Lucian Merryweather’s Family Grieves, Charges Against His Killer Reduced

By Brad Aaron | Mar 12, 2014 | 13 Comments

Lucian Merryweather was one of at least 10 children age 12 and under killed by a New York City motorist in the last 12 months. As his family tries to cope with his death and joins others in demanding an end to traffic violence, court records say charges were downgraded against the driver who killed […]

Maude Savage and Akkas Ali, Struck by Motorists in 2013, Die From Injuries

By Brad Aaron | Jan 22, 2014 | 17 Comments

Maude Savage, the 72-year-old who was hit by a motorist in a Brooklyn crosswalk last November, died from her injuries. Though video showed Savage was crossing with the light, charges were not upgraded against the commercial driver who took a corner at speed, striking her a few feet from a grocery store she had just walked […]

Curb-Jumping Cab Driver Hospitalizes at Least One Pedestrian on East Side

By Brad Aaron | Nov 6, 2013 | 7 Comments

A cab driver jumped a curb and hit at least one pedestrian on the East Side this morning, in an NYPD precinct that does not enforce speeding. Lauren Kirsch of Murray Hill took this photo at Park Avenue and E. 32nd Street at around 8 a.m. FDNY got the call for a pedestrian struck at […]

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