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What should have been a joyous holiday season for Kimberly Greer and her friends and family was destroyed when she was struck and killed by a charter bus in Lower Manhattan on Thursday, December 20th, 2018. The accident occurred when the bus made a left turn onto...
A truck driver has been arrested for failure to yield and failure to exercise due care after striking and killing a 71-year-old man in a crosswalk at the corner of McDonald Ave. and Cortelyou Road in Kensington, Brooklyn on Wednesday, December 12th, 2018. It was just...
Launched by the de Blasio administration in 2014, the Vision Zero program began a city-wide effort to completely eliminate traffic fatalities and injuries. While progress is being made (last year saw the fewest traffic fatalities in New York City on record), traffic...
The New York City Council approved 11 bills at the end of May designed to reduce accidents and improve safety, according to the Daily News. They are part of Mayor Bill de Blasio's Vision Zero plan, an ambitious proposal to eliminate traffic deaths in New York City....
The New York City borough of Staten Island is known for its speeding drivers. Residents rate speeding as the top traffic concern. Stories of terrible crashes, like the recent fatal car accident in Bulls Head, are more common than they should be, given the relatively...
Under Mayor Bill de Blassio's plan to eliminate traffic fatalities, known as Vision Zero, the failure of motor vehicle drivers to yield to pedestrians is now a criminal offense in New York City. However, prosecuting drivers who kill or injure pedestrians may become...
The legislation behind New York's "Vision Zero" has been written with the blood of victims like Kenny Valette. Valette, a 20-year-old man from the Bronx, was fatally struck by a tractor-trailer last evening. Valette was crossing Webster Avenue near E. 174th St. when...
Around 1:30 a.m. on Saturday March 1, 2014, a woman, later identified by police as Marisol Martinez, 21, was struck and killed by an MTA bus at the intersection of Meeker and Union Avenues in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. We profiled this tragedy earlier and...
