Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about NYPD Crash Investigations

NYPD Still Doesn’t Investigate All Fatal Traffic Crashes

By Ben Fried | Dec 16, 2014 | 9 Comments

In 2013, Ray Kelly made the only significant traffic safety policy change in his exceptionally long tenure as police commissioner. Kelly promised to increase the staffing of NYPD’s Collision Investigation Squad — where, at the time, only 19 detectives were assigned to investigate crashes in a city with about 300 traffic deaths and 3,000 serious injuries […]

Does Cy Vance Use His Surveillance Camera Bank to Fight Traffic Violence?

By Brad Aaron | Dec 12, 2014 | 10 Comments

In New York City, if you hit someone with a motor vehicle and keep driving, odds are you will get away with it. NYPD made arrests in just 25 percent of fatal hit-and-run crashes in 2012, according to Transportation Alternatives. And in many cases where the driver is eventually identified, a simple “I didn’t see […]

Teen Driver Kills Senior on Street With No Sidewalks, NYPD Blames Victim

By Brad Aaron | Dec 8, 2014 | 23 Comments

A teenage driver ran over a senior on a street with no sidewalks Sunday, and NYPD cast blame on the victim. The crash occurred in a police precinct where motorists have killed at least three pedestrians in 2014. At around 3 p.m. yesterday, 84-year-old Ignascio Andal was walking westbound on Wicklow Place when a 17-year-old […]

Driver Not Charged for Killing Girl, 10, and Injuring Mother in Borough Park

By Brad Aaron | Dec 3, 2014 | 11 Comments

A motorist killed a 10-year-old girl and injured her pregnant mother as the pair crossed a street in Borough Park Tuesday night. Blima Friedman was at least the eighth child age 14 and under killed by a New York City driver in 2014, and the third in the last six weeks. The crash occurred at […]

More Arterial Carnage: Driver Seriously Injures Woman on Atlantic [Updated]

By Brad Aaron | Nov 21, 2014 | 41 Comments

Update: A witness to this crash contacted Streetsblog. His account has been added to the post. A motorist seriously injured a pedestrian on Atlantic Avenue at Washington Avenue in Brooklyn this morning. A witness, who didn’t want his name published, told Streetsblog he was crossing Atlantic with several other pedestrians when the crash occurred. “There’s […]

NYPD Blames Teen Killed by SI Motorist Before Completing Investigation

By Brad Aaron | Nov 18, 2014 | 47 Comments

NYPD says it’s still investigating the death of a teenage jogger who was struck by a motorist on Staten Island, but that didn’t stop the department from publicizing a “preliminary” finding claiming the victim was at fault. Based on NYPD investigations into this crash and others, it’s open season on pedestrians who cross streets on a […]

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