Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Traffic Justice

TA Report: NYC District Attorneys Are Failing to Lead on Vision Zero

By Brad Aaron | Dec 8, 2015 | 2 Comments

New York City district attorneys are not using the power of their offices to deter acts of traffic violence by holding reckless drivers accountable for harming innocent people, according to a new report from Transportation Alternatives. TA researchers worked with representatives from all five DA’s offices for “Justice Denied: New York City’s District Attorneys Plead Out […]

Today: Urge Cuomo to Amend or Kill Disastrous Albany Hit-and-Run Bill

By Brad Aaron | Dec 2, 2015 | No Comments

District attorneys and traffic safety advocates across the state are asking Governor Cuomo to kill a bill that would stall efforts to reform state laws that create an incentive for drunk drivers to leave the scene of harmful crashes. This year the Assembly and State Senate passed a bill (A5266/S4747) to create the offense of aggravated leaving the scene, a […]

Richard Brown: Homicide Conviction for Driver Who Killed Betty DiBiaso

By Brad Aaron | Nov 20, 2015 | 3 Comments

Queens District Attorney Richard Brown won a homicide conviction against a hit-and-run driver who killed a woman near Astoria Park last summer. Betty Jean DiBiaso was leaving the park at around 12:26 a.m. on June 27 when Nicholas Colleran, 24, ran a stop sign and hit her with a Chevrolet sedan as she crossed Ditmars Boulevard […]

DOT: Drivers Injured 1,536 Pedestrians and Cyclists in October, and Killed 19

By Brad Aaron | Nov 19, 2015 | 8 Comments

Twenty-five people died in New York City traffic in October, and 5,009 were injured, according to DOT’s Vision Zero View crash data map. As of the end of October, DOT reported 113 pedestrians and cyclists killed by city motorists this year, and 12,042 injured, compared to 132 deaths and 12,267 injuries for the same period […]

Cy Vance: Homicide Conviction for Driver Who Killed Pedestrian in Crosswalk

By Brad Aaron | Nov 18, 2015 | 4 Comments

Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance has secured a homicide conviction against the driver who killed a pedestrian in an Upper West Side crosswalk. Jean Chambers was crossing West End Avenue at W. 95th Street at around 11 a.m. on July 10, 2014, when Roberto Mercado hit her with an SUV as he made a left […]

Richard Brown: Probation for Accused Unlicensed Hit-and-Run Killer

By Brad Aaron | Nov 16, 2015 | 3 Comments

A driver charged with felony hit-and-run and unlicensed driving got probation and a few days of community service for a crash that killed a pedestrian, as a result of a plea deal with Queens District Attorney Richard Brown. On the evening of February 22, the unidentified victim was crossing at 76th Street and Woodside Avenue, […]

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