Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Unlicensed Driving

Unlicensed truck driver Mauricio Osorio-Palominos killed 8-year-old Noshat Nahian on Northern Boulevard in 2013. He was charged with third degree aggravated unlicensed operation, which carries a maximum penalty of 30 days in jail and a $500 fine. Image: WNBC via Daily News

Unlicensed Drivers Keep Killing and Injuring New Yorkers — Time for Albany to Act

By Brad Aaron | Apr 5, 2017 | 4 Comments

The default charge for killing someone while driving without a license is the same one NYPD and DAs apply when an unlicensed driver fails to signal a turn.

The intersection of 43rd Avenue and 39th Street in Sunnyside, where a drunk driver struck and killed Gelacio Reyes as he biked home from work in April. Image: Google Maps

Alleged Drunk, Unlicensed Hit-and-Run Driver Kills Delivery Worker as NYPD Targets Cyclists

By Brad Aaron | Apr 3, 2017 | 6 Comments

Gelacio Reyes was riding home from work when he was struck by Cristian Guiracocha, who was charged with DWI and tampering with an ignition interlock.

NYPD has a get-out-of-jail-free card for drivers of large trucks who strike and kill people. Image: News 12

Unlicensed Driver Pleads Guilty in Brooklyn Hit-and-Run Death

By Brad Aaron | Mar 31, 2017 | 6 Comments

Brian Young was charged for fleeing the scene but not for the act of killing 28-year-old Francis Perez.

The motorist who killed 8-month-old Navraj Raju was ticketed for driving without a license. Queens DA Richard Brown thinks that’s punishment enough. Image: CBS

Richard Brown: Killing a Baby on a Sidewalk While Unlicensed Isn’t a Crime

By Brad Aaron | Jan 30, 2017 | 2 Comments

Brown apparently decided a low-level misdemeanor charge was too severe for the death of 8-month-old Navraj Raju.

Brooklyn DA Charges Driver With Manslaughter for Killing Victoria Nicodemus

By David Meyer | Jun 28, 2016 | 5 Comments

A grand jury has indicted Marlon Sewell for second-degree manslaughter six months after he jumped a curb in Fort Greene and killed 30-year-old Victoria Nicodemus while driving with a suspended license, Gothamist reports. Brooklyn DA Ken Thompson had refrained from pressing felony charges until Nicodemus’s family pressured his office to take action. On December 6, Sewell, driving a Chevy SUV […]

DA Ken Thompson Still Hasn’t Charged Driver for December Sidewalk Killing

By Brad Aaron | Jun 6, 2016 | 6 Comments

Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson charged the driver who killed Victoria Nicodemus on a Fort Greene sidewalk with unlicensed driving, but did not file charges for taking the victim’s life. Six months after the crash, Nicodemus’s family says the DA is dragging his feet on the case. Marlon Sewell hit Nicodemus, her boyfriend, and another person with a Chevrolet SUV […]

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