Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Traffic Justice

Sunday: Families For Safe Streets to Train Spotlight on Feckless NYC DAs

By Brad Aaron | Jan 8, 2015 | 9 Comments

Since January 2012, Streetsblog has maintained a database of all known pedestrians and cyclists killed by drivers in New York City. We collect as much information on each crash as possible, including any charges filed against the motorists who took the victims’ lives. Of over 400 fatalities tracked by Streetsblog in three years, in only […]

DMV Judge Delays Action Against License of Driver Who Killed Allison Liao

By Brad Aaron | Jan 6, 2015 | 23 Comments

An administrative law judge for the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles today deferred a decision concerning the driver’s license of the motorist who killed 3-year-old Allison Liao. In a packed hearing room at a DMV office in Jamaica, Sidney Fuchs watched video that showed an SUV driven by Ahmad Abu-Zayedeh run over Allison as […]

NYPD: 1,295 Pedestrians and Cyclists Injured, 14 Killed in Traffic in November

By Brad Aaron | Dec 22, 2014 | 54 Comments

Twenty-five people died in New York City traffic in November, and 4,222 were injured, according to the latest NYPD crash data report [PDF]. As of the end of November, 138 pedestrians and cyclists were reported killed by city motorists this year, and 13,523 injured, compared to 161 deaths and 14,721 injuries for the same period […]

DA Robert Johnson: No Charges for Driver Who Killed Child on Bronx Sidewalk

By Brad Aaron | Dec 19, 2014 | 22 Comments

Bronx District Attorney Robert Johnson filed no charges against a motorist who drove on a sidewalk outside a Bronx school in October, striking 10 people and killing 8-year-old Rylee Ramos. New York City motorists have killed at least eight children age 14 and under in 2014 — one in the Bronx, two in Manhattan, and […]

Vance Deal: $400 Fine for Unlicensed Driver Who Killed Senior in Crosswalk

By Brad Aaron | Dec 18, 2014 | 112 Comments

An unlicensed driver who fatally struck a senior as she crossed the street with the right of way will pay a $400 fine, pursuant to a plea arrangement with Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance. Keiko Ohnishi was walking with a cane across Madison Avenue at E. 98th Street on September 4 at around 9:47 a.m. […]

Does Cy Vance Use His Surveillance Camera Bank to Fight Traffic Violence?

By Brad Aaron | Dec 12, 2014 | 10 Comments

In New York City, if you hit someone with a motor vehicle and keep driving, odds are you will get away with it. NYPD made arrests in just 25 percent of fatal hit-and-run crashes in 2012, according to Transportation Alternatives. And in many cases where the driver is eventually identified, a simple “I didn’t see […]

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