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The New York City Department of Transportation has promised to improve a very dangerous intersection in Queens where traffic violence and fatalities have occurred at an alarming rate in the last couple of weeks.

The New York City Department of Transportation has pledged to make improvements to a Queens intersection that has seen numerous violent and even deadly car crashes in recent weeks. As the Queens Daily Eagle reported, the intersection of Cooper Avenue and Cypress Avenue in Glendale, Queens was the site of a February incident in which a man, 57, was hit by the drivers of two vehicles and reportedly died of his injuries. In a separate incident, two teenagers riding a moped hit a car, after which they were rushed to the hospital. City data shows a total of 153 accidents at the intersection between January 2014 and December 2021. In a February press conference about planned safety redesigns, DOT Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez said, “Help is on the way.” Continue reading

Many people are questioning safety laws and what is being done to prevent reckless drivers from being on the streets after an SUV driver with previous violations and speeding tickets recently struck and killed a 99-year-old man in Brooklyn.

The SUV driver who stuck and killed 99-year-old Holocaust survivor Jack Mikulincer in Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn earlier this month was the recipient of “10 school-zone speeding tickets and four red-light tickets since 2016,” including six such speeding tickets in 2021, according to a report by Streetsblog. The incident raises questions of what state and city authorities are doing to protect pedestrians and vulnerable road users from repeat offenders.  Continue reading

Reckless driving continues to increase in New York City, injuring and killing young drivers and pedestrians as young as 10 years old in Queens and many others in different areas of Brooklyn.

As reckless driving rises across the nation, New York City has been no exception to the deadly trend. Below is a roundup of recent traffic violence injuries and fatalities in the city. Continue reading

A recent report found that East New York, East Flatbush, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Williamsburg, and Jamaica are the neighborhoods where more crashes and traffic fatalities have occurred in 2021.

A new analysis by Streetsblog identified five “dangerous neighborhoods” for pedestrians and other vulnerable road users for New York’s new mayoral administration to focus on. Noting that there were more traffic fatalities in New York in 2021 than in any other year during the Bill de Blasio administration, the report stressed the need for Mayor Eric Adams to recommit to the city’s Vision Zero campaign to eliminate traffic violence deaths. The neighborhoods of concern on Streetsblog’s list are as follows. Continue reading

Recent reports found that former New York City  mayor, Bill de Blasi0, has left behind one of the deadliest years for accidents with a total of 266 traffic related deaths due to increased speeding, traffic violence, and hit-and-runs.

Despite his “Vision Zero” campaign to eliminate car crash deaths in New York City, former mayor Bill de Blasio departed office last week with “more traffic fatalities than any other year” in his eight-year administration, according to a report by the New York Post. A total of 266 people lost their lives in traffic violence incidents by December 26, 2021, a record high for de Blasio’s two-terms in office. The previous record was 293 people in 2013; he became mayor in 2014. Continue reading