The Weekly Carnage
Fatal Crashes (14 Killed This Week; 458 Killed This Year)
10:00 AM EDT on August 31, 2007
Fatal Crashes (14 Killed This Week; 458 Killed This Year)
Photo: G.N. Miller/New York Post
- Manhattan: DWI Driver Kills Delivery Worker (NY Post, Newsday)
- Yonkers, N.Y.: Driveway Death as Car Rolls Over Owner (Journal News, Newsday)
- Related: Car May Have Been Out of Gear (Journal News)
- Bedford Hills, N.Y.: Driver, 20, Charged After His Brother Dies (Journal News)
- Newark: Pedestrian Killed (NJ.com)
- Queens: 12-Year-Old Boy Hitches a Ride on a Truck and Is Killed (Newsday)
- North Patchogue, L.I.: Cyclist, 37, Struck by Car and Killed (Newsday)
- Flanders, L.I.: 2 Drivers Killed in Head-On Crash (Newsday)
- Hamilton, N.J.: Crash Kills Driver; Passenger Critical (Times of Trenton)
- West Babylon, L.I.: Pedestrian Returning from Hospital Killed by Car (Newsday)
- Holbrook, L.I.: Man, 21, Dies on Hamburger Bun Run (Newsday)
- Shirley, L.I.: Daughter, 23, Dies as Mother Hits Tree (Newsday)
- Nanuet, N.Y.: DWI Charge After Head-On Crash Kills One (Journal News)
- Freehold, N.J.: Man Killed as Motorcycle and Car Collide (Times of Trenton)
Injuries, Arrests & Property Damage
Frank Becerra Jr. / The Journal News
- Patterson, N.Y.: Driver Seriously Injured in Rollover (Journal News)
- Brooklyn: Teen Cyclist Pinned by SUV Is Saved by Passers-By (Daily News)
- Manhattan: Taxi Misses Road, Ends Up In Dry Cleaners (The Villager)
- Brooklyn: Officer Hurt in Hit-and-Run (NY Post)
- Brooklyn: Man Critical After East New York Hit-and-Run (NY1)
- Knowlton Twp., N.J.: SUV Flies Off Road, Injuring Five (Star-Ledger)
- Sunrise Highway, L.I.: Wrong-Way Driver Causes Scare (Newsday)
- Yonkers, N.Y.: 3 Injured in 2 Accidents During Car Chase (Journal News)
- New Cassel, L.I.: Motorcyclist Loses Leg in Collision With Car (Newsday)
- Monsey, N.Y.: Sanitation Worker Hospitalized After Hit (Journal News)
- Princeton, N.J.: Truck Spills Garbage, Closing Road (Times of Trenton)
Following Up
- Old Bridge, N.J.: Student in Critical Condition Dies* (Times of Trenton)
- Manhattan: Ped Killed at West Street Was Video Producer (Villager [scroll])
- Charges for N.J. Driver After Death of Brooklyn Couple (Star-Ledger)
- Brooklyn Man Indicted in Livery Driver’s Death (Newsday)
- Jersey City: Charges for Off-Duty Cop in Deadly Crash (Jersey Journal)
- NYPD Cover-Up Alleged in Fatal Brooklyn Hit-and-Run (Newsday)
- Cops Say Rye Student Who Died Had Alcohol and Marijuana (Journal News)
- Civil Suit Filed in UConn Hit-and-Run (Newsday)
Trends
- 3 New England States Team Up for Road Safety (Newsday)
- New Jersey Towns Take a Walk on the Safe Side (Star-Ledger)
- Doe Raising Two Fawns in a Staten Island Cloverleaf (S.I. Advance)
Opinion
- Letter: Minimum Driving Age Must Be Raised (Journal News)
*Crash was on Aug. 14; added to this week’s fatality totals.
Before he began blogging about land use and transportation, Aaron Donovan wrote The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund's annual fundraising appeal for three years and earned a master's degree in urban planning from Columbia. Since then, he has worked for nonprofit organizations devoted to New York City economic development. He lives and works in the Financial District, and sees New York's pre-automobile built form as an asset that makes New York unique in the United States, and as a strategic advantage that should be capitalized upon.
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