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Car Crashes by City Workers Cost Taxpayers $180M in Payouts Last Year: Report
A record number of victims of crashes involving city employees in city-owned cars filed claims in fiscal year 2023 — and settlements with victims have jumped 23 percent, a new report shows.
April 16, 2024
Audit: DOT Cameras Miss Millions of Speeding Drivers
The "worsening problem" of vehicles with obscured or covered license plates means more than $100 million a year in lost revenue — and failure in the fight against reckless drivers.
January 22, 2024
Family of Killed Cyclist Will Seek $100M For City Negligence in Crash
“They knew and did nothing,” Sarah Schick's widowed husband Maxime Le Munier said on Monday.
February 27, 2023
Comptroller Lander: Make City Drivers Safer By Punishing Agencies for Crashes
The comptroller says that settlements to victims of crashes caused by city workers in city vehicles should be paid for by the agency whose worker caused the damage — instead of from the general city budget — as a way to get agency brass to incentivize safety.
February 12, 2023
Comptroller: Here’s How DOT’s $425M Brooklyn Bridge Project Became a $657M Brooklyn Bridge Project
That's 55 percent more than the original cost estimate — and not something that city bean counters were likely to miss.
July 5, 2022
Crashes By City Workers — Especially Cops — Are Still Costing Taxpayers Dearly
Injury and property damage from crashes represent the largest cause for payouts by the city — even ahead of police brutality, slip and falls on sidewalks, or misconduct in the city's jails.
June 22, 2022
NYPD Driver Who Killed Man on Eastern Parkway is Placed on Modified Duty
The police officer who was driving the NYPD vehicle that fatally struck a man on Eastern Parkway last week after allegedly speeding and running a red light has been placed on modified duty — and the Internal Affairs Bureau has taken over the case.
April 15, 2022
