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Rogue Private Carter Arrested for Suspended License
The NYPD's ongoing crackdown on rogue truckers continues.
February 28, 2019
New York State Finally Has a New DMV Commissioner. Here’s What He Needs to Do
Buffalo Comptroller Mark Schroeder will fill a seat left vacant since Gov. Cuomo's first term. Streetsblog has a long list of actions he must take to make state roadways safer.
January 30, 2019
Senior Who Killed Pedestrian Madeline Sershen Pleads Guilty
A slap on the wrist for a driver who killed.
September 21, 2018
Motorist Who Killed Senior in Queens Crosswalk Pleads to Violating Victim’s Right of Way
For killing Toolia Rambarose, 70, with a van in Richmond Hill last February, Kazim Mohammed was fined $50. His driving privileges were not interrupted.
August 9, 2018
Confirmed: The DMV and NYPD Are Cheating Cyclists Again
The Department of Motor Vehicles just can't seem to stop itself from tacking on erroneous $88 fines to cyclists who receive a traffic ticket.
August 9, 2018
Queens Residents Demand Retests for Older Drivers After 88-Year-Old Kills Teen In Whitestone
Drivers lose skills as they age, so why aren't they retested? More than 200 Queens residents rallied on Monday to ask that very question.
July 30, 2018
88-Year-Old Driver Runs Red, Kills Madeline Sershen, 17, in Utopia Parkway Crosswalk
Other than vision tests, the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles does nothing to monitor the driving abilities of license-holders as they age.
June 26, 2018
Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez Indicts Driver Who Killed Two Kids on 9th Street for Manslaughter
The DA says Dorothy Bruns ignored doctors' instructions to stop driving months before she hit Joshua Lew and Abigail Blumenstein.
May 3, 2018
Has DMV Relapsed Into Its Old Habit of Ripping Off Cyclists?
Four years after the Department of Motor Vehicles was caught systematically overcharging cyclists who received traffic tickets, the attorney who brought the scandal to light thinks the agency might be making the same mistakes again.
April 30, 2018
86-Year-Old Driver Kills Giovanni Ampuero, 9, in Queens Crosswalk
Motorists have killed five children walking or biking on NYC streets this year, compared to one such fatality in the first four months of 2017.
April 30, 2018
