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NYPD and the Press Parrot Driver’s Account of Crash That Killed Lisa Julian

By Brad Aaron | Mar 28, 2014 | 17 Comments

Yesterday’s fatal East Village crash is another example of how NYPD and the press blame deceased pedestrians and cyclists based mostly on the word of the drivers who killed them. “Woman, 47, crossing against light in NoHo struck by car, killed on Thursday,” read the Daily News headline. But the only evidence presented that Lisa […]

Marlene Baharlias, 77, Killed by Motorist, Blamed by NYPD and the Post

By Brad Aaron | Mar 19, 2014 | 12 Comments

A senior was killed Tuesday in Sheepshead Bay by a driver who witnesses say backed onto a sidewalk — contrary to anonymous NYPD sources who told the Post the victim was jaywalking. No charges were filed. Marlene Baharlias, 77, was walking home from the doctor with her husband when the driver of a Mercedes SUV backed onto the curb […]

It’s Not the Bike Lane, Stupid: Double-Parking Caused By Poor Curb Policies

By Ben Fried | Feb 27, 2014 | 21 Comments

Probably the dumbest part of a stupendously dumb Post story about double-parking tickets and the Columbus Avenue bike lane is this: The controversial bike path from West 110th Street down to West 77th Street claimed a lane of traffic — even though it is parallel to more preferable cycling routes on Riverside Drive or in […]

Post Wonders What Woman Did to Get Herself Run Over by Cab Driver

By Brad Aaron | Feb 5, 2014 | 19 Comments

It used to be that the tabloids would focus on any mistake by an injured or deceased pedestrian while ignoring what a motorist did, or didn’t do, to cause a crash. Now, in the absence of actual evidence that a pedestrian was in any way at fault, the Post has taken to spreading innuendo. Yesterday […]

Was the Victim of the Jackson Heights MTA Bus Crash Jaywalking? [Updated]

By Brad Aaron | Feb 4, 2014 | 11 Comments

Update: NYPD identified the victim as Martha Tibillin-Guamug, 25, according to the Times Ledger. A pedestrian was killed by a Q53 bus driver in Jackson Heights Monday afternoon. Some published reports say the woman was hit near 74th Street and Broadway, but photos of the scene and the Q53 route map indicate that the crash occurred […]

Daily News Ignores Driver’s Actions in Persecuting 70-Year-Old “Jaywalker”

By Brad Aaron | Jan 30, 2014 | 9 Comments

The headline in today’s Daily News, “Jaywalker in critical condition after being struck by car in Midtown,” sets the tone for a particularly heinous example of tabloid victim-blaming. According to the Post, the victim was Landal Hoilette, who was hit on W. 57th Street near 11th Avenue yesterday afternoon while on a lunch break from his […]

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