Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Traffic Justice

Parents of Lucian Merryweather: Our Son’s Killer Should Never Drive Again

By Brad Aaron | May 8, 2015 | 5 Comments

This week, Anthony Byrd was formally sentenced for fatally striking 9-year-old Lucian Merryweather on a Brooklyn sidewalk. On November 2, 2013, Byrd drove a Ford SUV into two cars and a building after swerving to avoid two people in a crosswalk at DeKalb and Clermont Avenues. He then made a U-turn and drove against traffic […]

New Families For Safe Streets Campaign Defends Right of Way Law

By Stephen Miller | Apr 30, 2015 | 16 Comments

Families For Safe Streets released videos and posters this morning defending the Right of Way Law, in response to a campaign by Transport Workers Union Local 100, which wants MTA bus drivers exempted from the law. The Right of Way Law, passed unanimously by the City Council and signed by Mayor Bill de Blasio last June, allows for low-level misdemeanor charges against drivers who […]

Vance Upgrades Charges, Secures Manslaughter Indictment for LES Crash

By Brad Aaron | Apr 28, 2015 | 5 Comments

Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance secured a manslaughter indictment against a driver accused of killing a pedestrian in a high-speed crash on the Lower East Side. A Vance press release says that on the evening of November 24, 2014, Danny Lin was allegedly speeding northbound on the Bowery in a BMW when he drove into 57-year-old […]

A Bus Design Flaw Is No Reason to Gut the Right of Way Law

By Brad Aaron | Apr 23, 2015 | 25 Comments

As part of its campaign to make it legal for bus drivers to injure and kill people, the Transport Workers Union says flawed bus design is to blame for bus drivers hitting pedestrians while turning. According to WABC, the TWU claims “half of all recent bus accidents” in NYC and nationwide occurred because drivers were prevented from seeing […]

NYPD Tickets Driver After Blaming Staten Island Teen for Her Own Death

By Brad Aaron | Apr 22, 2015 | 2 Comments

After initially blaming the victim in the press, NYPD issued a careless driving summons to the monster truck driver who killed 15-year-old Jenna Daniels as she jogged along a Staten Island street last winter. The department refused to release the driver’s name or disclose how he was penalized, the Staten Island Advance reports. The driver hit Daniels with a pickup […]

Rangel: Let’s Allow Bus Drivers to Kill People With the Right of Way

By Brad Aaron | Apr 22, 2015 | 19 Comments

Congressman Charlie Rangel condemned the Right of Way Law earlier this week, joining the Transport Workers Union to argue that the law should allow MTA bus drivers to kill people who have the right of way. Speaking to bus drivers and TWU officials Monday at the Mother Clara Hale Depot in Harlem, Rangel said it was “stupid” to charge bus […]

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