Latest Articles Tagged "traffic fatalities"
A couple that was riding a scooter or motorcycle collided with an SUV .
Kevin Gomez, 20, was charged with leaving the scene of an accident that resulted in death and driving alone without a license, police said.
The company whose driver struck the child has been involved in a number of fatal crashes in recent year.
Twenty cyclists died in traffic crashes in the last fiscal year, up from 16 in FY 2015, according to the mayor's office.
101 of the deaths have been pedestrians.
As one cop put it, "We are seeing more people hit by cars than bullets."
WNYC has now set up an interactive graphic, which you can see below, to keep track of all the traffic deaths in 2014. So far, charges have only been filed in seven cases.
De Blasio had a plan to hold cabbies more accountable in the future: taxi black boxes.
The DOT today changed signs along Prospect Park West, lowering the speed limit from 30 to 25 mph.