NYPD Crash Investigations
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Liu: Increase NYPD Crash Investigation Staff Six-Fold
Buried in Comptroller John Liu's "People's Budget" proposal released last week (way below the part about bridge tolls that New Yorkers don't have to pay) is an interesting proposal about NYPD's crash investigation staffing.
April 19, 2013
Cyclist’s Brother Says NYPD Closed Investigation Into Unsolved Death
The brother of a man killed in an apparent dooring incident in the Bronx, a crash that NYPD failed to investigate for over a month, says police have stopped working the case due to a lack of evidence, DNAinfo reports.
April 18, 2013
Immune From Prosecution, Curb-Jumping NYC Motorists Claim More Victims
Denim McLean, the toddler who was one of 10 people struck by a curb-jumping motorist in East Flatbush last month, died from his injuries.
April 8, 2013
Irvin Gitlitz, 83, Was First of Two Pedestrian Fatalities Wednesday
The pedestrian killed by a truck driver at Flatbush and Atlantic on Wednesday has been identified as Irvin Gitlitz, 83, according to NYPD.
April 4, 2013
NYPD: No Charges for Driver Who Hit 10 People, Leaving Boy Brain Dead
A motorist jumped the curb and slammed into a bus stop and scaffolding in East Flatbush on Saturday, striking up to 10 pedestrians. Four people were hospitalized in critical condition, including a woman and her young son. According to the Post, Denim McLean, whose age has been reported as 2 and 3, is brain dead.
April 1, 2013
Sook-Ja Kim Killed by Motorist in Mosholu Parkway Median; No Charges Filed
A woman was struck and killed by a driver who jumped the curb and drove across a field near the Bronx Botanical Garden last weekend.
March 20, 2013
“No Criminality Suspected” Stencils Spotlight Lack of Traffic Justice
Last night, a group of activists traveled to the sites of eight traffic fatalities and stenciled paint memorials for those who lost their lives walking or biking in crashes for which NYPD declared "no criminality suspected" within hours of the crash. This morning, Time's Up! led a memorial bike ride to the eight crash sites.
March 15, 2013
No Charges Filed as Six Are Killed by NYC Drivers in Seven Days
A Brooklyn woman who was struck by a truck driver in Red Hook Wednesday was the latest victim among six city pedestrian and cyclist fatalities in the last week.
March 14, 2013
Kelly: NYPD to Add 10 Investigators to Crash Team
Ray Kelly says NYPD's revamped crash investigation team will be increased by half.
March 12, 2013
Transparency Must Accompany NYPD Crash Investigation Reforms
The New York City Police Department has begun dispatching crash investigators to sites of critical-injury traffic crashes as well as fatalities, the New York Times reported Sunday. And in what the paper called “a symbolic semantic change,” the department is retiring the term “accident”; henceforth, traffic crashes will be called “collisions,” and the Accident Investigation Squad will be renamed the Collision Investigation Squad.
March 12, 2013