Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Traffic Justice

DOT: Drivers Injured 1,323 Pedestrians and Cyclists in August, and Killed 14

By Brad Aaron | Sep 24, 2015 | 4 Comments

Twenty-one people died in New York City traffic in August, and 4,891 were injured, according to DOT’s Vision Zero View crash data map. As of the end of August, DOT reported 88 pedestrians and cyclists killed by city motorists this year, and 9,150 injured, compared to 96 deaths and 9,628 injuries for the same period […]

Bronx DA Johnson Files Manslaughter Charge for Cyclist’s Hit-and-Run Death

By Brad Aaron | Sep 23, 2015 | 2 Comments

Bronx District Attorney Robert Johnson filed homicide charges against the man who allegedly killed cyclist Gabriela Aguilar-Vallinos in a hit-and-run crash earlier this month. Aguilar-Vallinos, 27, was on her way home from work at around 11:45 on the night of September 11 when a driver hit her with a Hyundai sedan on the City Island […]

DA Ken Thompson: Charges for Punching Driver, No Charges for Killing Child

By Brad Aaron | Sep 2, 2015 | 21 Comments

Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson is prosecuting the man accused of punching the driver who killed 8-year-old Jadann Williams in Flatbush, but Thompson filed no charges against the driver. Jadann was playing with a group of kids on E. 22nd Street on the afternoon of August 26 when a man identified by the Daily News as Reginald […]

James Oddo Calls for Wider Roads Hours After SI Traffic Violence Claims Life

By Brad Aaron | Sep 1, 2015 | 10 Comments

A UPS worker who lost a leg when a Staten Island driver slammed into him in April has died. NYPD and Staten Island prosecutors issued no summonses and filed no criminal charges in the case. Tom Ryan, 52, was unloading packages from his truck at 2044 Hylan Boulevard on the morning of April 6 when a driver […]

City Hall and TWU Reach Settlement in Suit Over Right-of-Way Law

By Ben Fried | Sep 1, 2015 | 17 Comments

The de Blasio administration has reached a settlement with TWU Local 100 over the union’s lawsuit against the Right-of-Way Law, ostensibly bringing an end to a rancorous political fight that sapped energy from the city’s street safety efforts for the better part of a year. On its face, the settlement maintains the integrity of the law, which was intended […]

Driver Pleads to Felony in Hit-and-Run Death of Manhattan Pedestrian

By Brad Aaron | Aug 14, 2015 | 5 Comments

A driver who killed a Union Square pedestrian pled guilty to a felony hit-and-run charge this week. Doohee Cho, 33, was crossing Fifth Avenue between E. 15th and E. 16th streets in the early morning hours of September 28, 2014, when Macgyver Beltran hit him with a Chevrolet sedan, according to published reports. Police arrested […]

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