Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Traffic Justice

No Right of Way Charge for Driver Who Killed Toddler in Bronx Crosswalk

By Brad Aaron | May 17, 2016 | 11 Comments

Update: Darcel Clark’s office sent us this statement: “Our office is investigating the incident with the NYPD Accident Investigation Squad, as we do with any fatality or serious injury when a pedestrian is struck.” NYPD and Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark have not charged the driver who struck and killed 3-year-old Mariam Dansoko in a […]

SI Driver Charged With Manslaughter for Killing Cyclist With Boat Trailer

By Brad Aaron | May 16, 2016 | 8 Comments

A motorist was charged with manslaughter for the death of a Staten Island cyclist who was struck by a boat trailer that detached from a truck. Alexa Cioffi and her friend Briana Emanuele were riding on Hylan Boulevard at Redgrave Avenue on the afternoon of September 14, 2015, when the driver of an SUV, who was […]

Truck Driver Charged With Reckless Driving for Killing Heather Lough at NYBG

By Brad Aaron | May 4, 2016 | 18 Comments

A truck driver struck and killed a woman outside the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx last week. He has been charged with reckless driving and failure to yield. The victim, 29-year-old Heather Lough, was heading to her job at the botanical garden on the morning of Wednesday, April 27, when Robert Owens, 45, hit her with […]

Driver Pleads to Manslaughter for Killing 12-Year-Old on Brooklyn Sidewalk

By Brad Aaron | May 3, 2016 | 1 Comment

Update: Robert DeCarlo was sentenced to five to 15 years in prison. A man who drove a stolen minivan into a woman and her two children on a Brooklyn sidewalk, killing a 12-year-old girl and leaving the other victims with life-altering injuries, has pled guilty to manslaughter. Robert DeCarlo hit Joie Sellers, her 9-year-old sister Charlie, and their […]

Another Person Killed by Turning Motorist in the 109th Precinct

By Brad Aaron | Apr 6, 2016 | 2 Comments

An ambulette driver was charged under the Right of Way Law for striking and killing a pedestrian in Flushing. The crash happened Tuesday at around 8:57 a.m. The victim — a 57-year-old man whose name has not been released by police, pending family notification — was crossing 35th Avenue in the crosswalk when Ramon Ortiz, 55, struck him with an SUV […]

Associated Press Cautions Journalists That Crashes Aren’t Always “Accidents”

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 4, 2016 | No Comments

When negligence is claimed or proven, avoid accident, which can be read as exonerating the person responsible. #ACES2016 — APStylebook (@APStylebook) April 2, 2016 The Associated Press has tweaked its guidance for journalists about when to call traffic collisions “accidents.” Street safety advocates, spearheaded by New York City’s Transportation Alternatives, have been pushing police and media organizations to drop the […]

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