6 people were injured including 5 pedestrians in a NYC car accident between a livery car and a taxi. The accident occurred last Thursday night a little bit after 7:00 pm. The street was busy with pedestrians when a yellow cab violently T-boned a livery car at the intersection of…
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Bronx Garbage truck driver who killed pedestrian had killed another one 6 months before
In a previous post we mentioned that a pedestrian was fatally struck by a garbage truck belonging to Sanitation Salvage two weeks ago in the Bronx. Leon Clark, a man in his 70ies who was living in Adams Houses was walking on E. 152nd St. near Jackson Ave in Morrisiana…
Driver who fatally hit 2 children in NYC charged with manslaughter, assault and criminally negligent homicide
Two months ago Dorothy Burns ran a red like, killed two young children and injured 3 pedestrians in a horrific accident in Brooklyn, NYC (see previous blog). The 2 children were 20-month-old Joshua Lew and 4 year old Abigael Blumenstein, the daughter of Tony award actress Ruthie Ann Miles. Burns…
Hit and Run accident fatalities at their highest in the US, 60% of the victims are pedestrians
2,049 people died in 1,980 fatal hit and run crashes in 2016 in the US according to a study recently released by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. This is the highest number of fatal hit and run crashes ever recorded in the US. Among the 2,049 people who died…
Elderly pedestrians carnage at Brooklyn car wash
An elderly woman died and her husband is in critical condition after both got hit several times in a freaky car accident at a Brooklyn car wash in New York City. Tuesday afternoon around 3:00 pm, an elderly couple brought their car to a car wash located next to the…
4 years of Vision Zero efforts have lead to a decline of 28% of all traffic fatalities in NYC including 45% in pedestrian deaths
Since Vision Zero started in 2014, NYC traffic fatalities decreased by 28% while nationally they went up by 15%. According to the Fourth Vision Zero Annual Report that was recently released by the de Blasio Administration, the decline was the strongest in pedestrian deaths. They went down by 45% since the…
3 pedestrians died in NYC this week-end including 9 year old killed by 86 year old hit and run driver
An 86 year old driver fatally struck a young pedestrian in a crosswalk on Northern Boulevard Queens, NYC, and left the scene of the accident. He was chased by a taxi driver who was able to stop him several blocks away. The accident occurred last Saturday Afternoon around 1:20 pm.…
8 year old pedestrian fatally hit by car in New York City
A young pedestrian died after being struck by a van on a Bronx sidewalk in New York City. 8 year old Cellou Diallo was part of a group of children that just came out of a van that had parked on East 125th Street in Williamsbridge . As they were…
NYC Auto Accident Injuries at their highest during the first trimester of 2018
Vision Zero Initiatives have helped decrease traffic accident deaths in New York City especially for pedestrians and bicyclists but the number of people injured in auto accidents during the first three months of the year has been on a rising trend. Distracted driving is the number one cause of accidents…
The woman who killed to young pedestrians and injured 3 others in Brooklyn had a medical emergency two days before the crash
The investigation is still ongoing in the NYC car accident during which Dorothy Burns drove into a group of pedestrians and killed two young children on March 5th. According to a new article in the NY Daily News, a medical crew was dispatched to Burns’ apartment on March 2nd after…