Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Traffic Justice

Manhattan DA Cy Vance Won’t Prosecute Cab Driver Who Killed 9-Year-Old

By Brad Aaron | May 22, 2014 | 37 Comments

Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance will file no criminal charges against the cab driver who killed 9-year-old Cooper Stock and injured his father in an Upper West Side crosswalk in January. Lisa Belkin of Yahoo News reports that prosecutors met Wednesday with Cooper’s parents, Richard Stock and Dana Lerner. “They told me there is nothing […]

Brooklyn DA Secures Rare Manslaughter Conviction for Pedestrian Death

By Brad Aaron | May 21, 2014 | 2 Comments

In a rare case of an apparently sober motorist facing serious penalties for a fatal crash, an unlicensed hit-and-run driver who killed one Brooklyn pedestrian and seriously injured another pled guilty to manslaughter this week. Raul De La Cruz and an unidentified woman were crossing Borinquen Place near Keap Street in Williamsburg at around 5 […]

Accused Unlicensed Hit-and-Run Killer on Trial in Brooklyn

By Brad Aaron | May 20, 2014 | 2 Comments

A motorist who authorities say had a history of driving offenses and was driving without a license when he fatally struck a Brooklyn senior and fled the scene two years ago is on trial this week. Isabel Rodriguez, 88, was walking with her 79-year-old sister on July 22, 2012, when Wayne Stokeling drove into her at […]

DA Ken Thompson Won’t Say When DWI Killer Might Drive Again [Updated]

By Brad Aaron | May 14, 2014 | 3 Comments

The office of Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson won’t talk about reported developments in the case of a defendant who avoided a homicide charge after killing a pedestrian while driving drunk. Eric Nesmith hit Roxana Gomez at Flatbush Avenue and St. Marks Avenue with a BMW sedan just after midnight on July 5, 2013, according to witness accounts and the Post. Gomez, 27, suffered […]

Vance Brings Rare Murder Charge Against Driver Who Killed Man on Sidewalk

By Stephen Miller | May 6, 2014 | 3 Comments

Last June, according to prosecutors, 33-year-old Shaun Martin, under the influence of alcohol and drugs, got behind the wheel of a Nissan Altima and began speeding down Second Avenue in the East Village. At 4th Street, he veered across three lanes of traffic, jumped the curb and slammed into four people, including florist Mohammed Akkas Ali, […]

Driver Who Killed Bronx Pedestrian Pleads to Leaving Scene

By Brad Aaron | May 5, 2014 | No Comments

A hit-and-run motorist who killed a Bronx pedestrian in a 2013 crash pled guilty last week to leaving the scene, but could be sentenced to as little as probation. Harlem resident Abigail Lino, 24, was outside a Bruckner Avenue club in Longwood at around 3 a.m. last August 31, reports said, when a security guard […]

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