Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about NYPD Crash Investigations

Council Overrides Bloomberg Veto of NYPD Hit-and-Run Transparency Bill

By Brad Aaron | Feb 4, 2014 | 2 Comments

The City Council today voted to override a number of vetoes handed down by former Mayor Bloomberg. According to the Staten Island Advance, among the bills passed was Intro 1055, which requires NYPD to release information on hit-and-run crashes and investigations. The bill mandates that NYPD report quarterly on the total number of “critical injury” hit-and-run […]

First Up for Ydanis Rodriguez: Override of NYPD Hit-and-Run Data Veto

By Stephen Miller | Jan 29, 2014 | 2 Comments

Today’s transportation committee meeting, the first chaired by Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez, was short and sweet. The new chair opened with a statement outlining his goals for the 13-member committee, which minutes later unanimously passed an override of Mayor Bloomberg’s veto of a bill that would give the council more information about NYPD’s hit-and-run investigations. […]

Bratton’s Bad Data on Pedestrian Injuries Won’t Get Us to Vision Zero

By Brad Aaron | Jan 16, 2014 | 43 Comments

Yesterday NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton said that in 73 percent of crashes in which a pedestrian was struck by a motorist in 2013, the pedestrian was at fault. Bratton presented that figure as an indictment of pedestrian behavior, and the stat was later parroted by the press. But more than anything it speaks to the victim-blaming bias […]

9-Year-Old Boy, Mother, and Senior Killed in Weekend of Motorist Violence

By Brad Aaron | Jan 13, 2014 | 20 Comments

Three pedestrians were fatally struck by motorists over the weekend, bringing to seven the number of people killed while walking in New York City in the first two weeks of 2014. Twenty pedestrians were killed by city motorists in January 2013, according to NYPD data, and 12 pedestrians and one cyclist died in January 2012. […]

Koo Will Try Override After Bloomberg Vetoes NYPD Hit-and-Run Bill

By Brad Aaron | Jan 7, 2014 | 1 Comment

As one of his last acts in office, Mayor Michael Bloomberg vetoed a bill that would have required NYPD to report to the City Council and the public on hit-and-run crashes. With lead sponsor Leroy Comrie also gone from City Hall, Council Member Peter Koo plans to marshal an effort to override the veto. Intro […]

Hit-and-Run Driver Not Charged in Death of Queens Pedestrian Mosa Khatun

By Brad Aaron | Jan 6, 2014 | 13 Comments

A hit-and-run driver who fatally struck a woman in Jamaica last night will not be charged with a crime, according to NYPD. Mosa Khatun, 38, was struck by the driver of a Nissan SUV at the corner of Highland Avenue and 169th Street at around 10:20 p.m., according to NYPD and the Daily News: Emergency […]

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