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Pedestrian Fatalities Spark Few Media Questions, Zero Cries for “Justice”

By Brad Aaron | Oct 6, 2008 | 16 Comments

Early Saturday morning, two 26-year-old women were killed while trying to cross 14th Street at First Avenue in the East Village. According to the Daily News and other outlets, Stephanie Dees (right) and Ann Sullivan were both hit by a taxi traveling west on 14th, and Dees was hit by a second cab, apparently heading […]

Post: Pedestrian Injuries All in Good Fun

By Brad Aaron | Oct 2, 2008 | 5 Comments

Today’s New York Post features the wacky story of a motorist from the Bronx who — get this — drove through the window of a Midtown map store. A "befuddled" Rodney Bailey "left a West 43rd Street parking garage at about 8 a.m. and made a right turn into the front of a Hagstrom Map […]

Daily News, Betsy Gotbaum Come to the Aid of Parking Ticket Victims

By Brad Aaron | Sep 30, 2008 | 20 Comments

Yesterday we noted how it took a cyclist-involved collision to get the Daily News riled up over pedestrian fatalities. Regaining its senses, the paper today again turns its attention to the real victims: motorists. Specifically those who park illegally and are indiscriminately ticketed for doing so. Bronx business owners say parking agents are harassing customers […]

Daily News Finally Finds Injustice in Pedestrian Fatalities

By Brad Aaron | Sep 29, 2008 | 16 Comments

On average, a New York City pedestrian is killed by a car about every three days. It happened again on Friday, when six-year-old Clarente Turner (right) and his mother were hit by a runaway SUV as they stood in a median, holding hands, at Kings Highway and E. 95th St. in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. The […]

In Week of Carnage, Times Looks Askance at Broadway Traffic-Calming

By Brad Aaron | Aug 26, 2008 | 20 Comments

Projects like Broadway Boulevard are intended, in part, to reduce auto-pedestrian conflicts. Yesterday traffic agent Donnette Sanz was buried with her infant son. Two weeks ago, she was crossing a Bronx street on her lunch break when she was hit by a van and thrown under a school bus. Her unborn child was delivered prematurely […]

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