Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Traffic Justice

Husband Says NYPD Wrecked Case Against Driver Charged for Wife’s Death

By Brad Aaron | Mar 8, 2012 | 7 Comments

Last week we reported how the botched NYPD investigation into the death of Brooklyn cyclist Stefanos Tsigrimanis was initially compromised due to a department policy that keeps the Accident Investigation Squad from working cases unless the victim is believed likely to die. When an emergency room doctor told police that Tsigrimanis was not fatally injured, AIS […]

Is There Really a “Rule of Two”?

By Brad Aaron | Feb 22, 2012 | 16 Comments

Conventional wisdom has it that in the state of New York a motorist must be breaking at least two traffic laws at the time of a crash to be charged with criminal negligence. As Nassau County ADA Maureen McCormick told Streetsblog: “It is believed that if a defendant commits two simultaneous traffic violations in the […]

Driver Cleared By NYPD Found Negligent in Death of Cyclist Rasha Shamoon

By Brad Aaron | Feb 14, 2012 | 17 Comments

A civil jury has found that a driver cleared of wrongdoing by NYPD was primarily responsible for the collision that killed a Manhattan cyclist in 2008. In the early morning hours of August 5, Rasha Shamoon was riding her bike east on Kenmare Street, en route to the Williamsburg Bridge and home to Greenpoint. At […]

Accused DWI Killer Gets Probation for Death of Six-Year-Old Zhaneya Butcher

By Brad Aaron | Feb 2, 2012 | 11 Comments

A killer charged with the DWI manslaughter death of a six-year-old child walked out of court Tuesday without spending a day in jail. Prosecutors say Kent Lowrie, 53, was legally drunk when he hit and killed Zhaneya Butcher last summer as the little girl ran toward an ice cream truck on 104th Avenue in Jamaica, […]

Brooklyn DA’s Office Reviewing Mathieu Lefevre Hit-and-Run

By Brad Aaron | Jan 25, 2012 | 5 Comments

The office of Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes will conduct a review into the death of cyclist Mathieu Lefevre, according to the borough’s top prosecutor for vehicular crimes. Craig Esswein, chief of the vehicular crimes bureau, told Streetsblog that reviewing deadly traffic crashes is standard procedure. “Any time there’s a fatality the NYPD does their […]

Will Vance Victory Translate to Tougher Stance on Traffic Crime?

By Brad Aaron | Jan 19, 2012 | 21 Comments

The office of Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance scored a significant victory last week, earning a homicide conviction in the case of a driver who killed a pedestrian in East Harlem nine years ago. But the circumstances of the crash, and their striking similarity to a 2011 fatality that resulted in a slap-on-the-wrist plea bargain, […]

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