Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Trucks

Eyes on the Street: The Everyday Perils of Being an NYC Pedestrian

By Brad Aaron | Sep 11, 2013 | 4 Comments

Yesterday I observed the driver of this tanker truck do a U-turn at Broadway and 204th Street in order to pull up to a gas station. I walk this intersection regularly, and you always have to be especially mindful of what drivers are doing on this corner, since it’s basically one big curb cut. Once the […]

Will the Feds Step Up for Ped Safety and Close the Crossover Mirror Loophole?

By Stephen Miller | Sep 4, 2013 | 11 Comments

In February, 7-year-old Amar Diarrassouba was killed while crossing the street in East Harlem. Truck driver Robert Carroll ran him over while turning from East 117th Street to First Avenue. Because Carroll was driving a truck registered out-of-state, the vehicle wasn’t covered by the state law requiring crossover mirrors for large trucks on New York City […]

NYC Has Laws Restricting Big Trucks on City Streets. Are Companies Obeying?

By Ben Fried | Aug 2, 2013 | 32 Comments

The death of Bronx high school student Renee Thompson, 16, on the Upper East Side Wednesday evening was the latest in a string of fatal crashes involving large trucks. Thompson was at least the seventh pedestrian killed by a semi-truck driver in New York City in the past year. While there are laws on the […]

Ngozi Agbim, 73, Killed by Truck Driver at Crash-Prone Brooklyn Intersection

By Brad Aaron | Jun 25, 2013 | 52 Comments

A senior was struck and killed by a truck driver at a crash-prone intersection in Brooklyn Monday. At approximately 9:40 a.m., Ngozi Agbim, 73, was attempting to cross the nine lanes of traffic where Church Avenue crosses Ocean Parkway, at the terminus of the Prospect Expressway, as the truck driver was making a right turn. […]

Citi Bike Member Packets Include Cycling-Near-Trucks Safety Tips

By Ben Fried | May 22, 2013 | 32 Comments

Yesterday we had a feisty exchange of posts between Charles Komanoff and Nicole Gelinas about what the city should do to enhance safety for Citi Bike users (and everyone else). One of Gelinas’s main suggestions is to educate bike-share users about how to interact safely with trucks, and it turns that there’s a big graphic […]

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