Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Traffic Justice

New Bill Would Strengthen Penalties for Dangerous Driving

By Brad Aaron | May 22, 2009 | 12 Comments

Assembly Member Brian Kavanagh, speaking, with Daniel Squadron and Scott Stringer. To Squadron’s right are Wendy Cheung, Hayley Ng’s aunt, and Jon Adler, representative for the families of Ng and Diego Martinez Legislation prompted by the deaths of two children in Chinatown would mandate a safety course and community service for drivers who seriously injure […]

Is Death an Appropriate Penalty for “Jaywalking”?

By Brad Aaron | May 19, 2009 | 22 Comments

Last Saturday, the Daily News reported that a man was critically injured when he was struck by a Range Rover on 14th Street at Eighth Avenue Friday evening at around 6 p.m. The out-of-control SUV went on to strike several cars before coming to rest on its side. Another motorist falls prey to the urban […]

Manhattan DA Candidates to Debate Traffic Justice

By Ben Fried | May 13, 2009 | 7 Comments

Mark your calendars for the morning of Wednesday, June 3. That’s when the three declared candidates running for Manhattan District Attorney — Richard Aborn, Leslie Crocker Snyder, and Cyrus Vance — will sit down for a round table debate on traffic justice. Organized by Transportation Alternatives and the Criminal Justice Society of the Benjamin Cardozo […]

Revolving Door Keeps Spinning for City’s Drunk Drivers

By Brad Aaron | May 6, 2009 | 4 Comments

DWI Killer Tenzing Bhutia got two years for the 2007 death of Julia Thomson. Photo: Daily News The Post last weekend noted some disturbing statistics relating to city drunk driving prosecutions. Out of 10,000 arrests last year, according to the state Division of Criminal Justice Services, 6,000 cases worked their way through the courts, with […]

Anatomy of a (Legal) Hit-and-Run

By Brad Aaron | Apr 23, 2009 | 7 Comments

Scene of an April 3 collision between a driver and delivery man. That’s food on the car’s hood. Early this month Streetsblog regular ddartley tagged a series of shots for the Flickr feed showing the aftermath of a driver-cyclist collision on the edge of Stuyvesant Town. According to Dartley, the cyclist was a restaurant delivery […]

Another Pedestrian Dies, Another Killer Driver Walks

By Brad Aaron | Apr 20, 2009 | 15 Comments

JoAnne Hayden-Weissman, center, was killed by a curb-jumping driver in Queens on April 16. The words never fail to shock. Last Thursday afternoon, 55-year-old JoAnne (Kodetsky) Hayden-Weissman was walking her dog on a path near Cross Bay Boulevard in Broad Channel, Queens when a driver reportedly jumped the curb, striking both her and her pet. […]

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