B'klyn Takes Top Spot Amid Deadliest Year on Roads (New York: live, dangerous)

[Aeran]

B'klyn has the dubious distinction. Watch out all you Brooklynites out there.

https://www.brooklynpaper.com/brookl...year-on-roads/

More New Yorkers died in crashes in 2021 than in any other year of the former-Mayor Bill de Blasio administration, data collected by street safety advocates reveal.

A record 273 people were killed on the streets of the Big Apple last year, according to the groups Transportation Alternatives and Families for Safe Streets, marking a morbid ending to de Blasio’s signature Vision Zero initiative he launched at the start of his mayoralty to reduce road fatalities to zero.

The number of people killed in crashes was up from 243 in 2020, 220 in 2019, and 206 in 2018, the safest year on Gotham’s streets in recent history, and the number of hit-and-runs doubled since 2018.

Brooklyn had the most deaths of any of the Five Boroughs at 80 people who lost their lives, and the Bronx saw more cyclists killed during 2020 and 2021 than during any time from 2012-2019.

Local hotspots for traffic violence include southeast Queens, the South Bronx, southwest Brooklyn, and the middle of Staten Island.

[Dave 92 LSC]

Originally Posted by Aeran

B'klyn has the dubious distinction. Watch out all you Brooklynites out there.

https://www.brooklynpaper.com/brookl...year-on-roads/

More New Yorkers died in crashes in 2021 than in any other year of the former-Mayor Bill de Blasio administration, data collected by street safety advocates reveal.

A record 273 people were killed on the streets of the Big Apple last year, according to the groups Transportation Alternatives and Families for Safe Streets, marking a morbid ending to de Blasio’s signature Vision Zero initiative he launched at the start of his mayoralty to reduce road fatalities to zero.

The number of people killed in crashes was up from 243 in 2020, 220 in 2019, and 206 in 2018, the safest year on Gotham’s streets in recent history, and the number of hit-and-runs doubled since 2018.

Brooklyn had the most deaths of any of the Five Boroughs at 80 people who lost their lives, and the Bronx saw more cyclists killed during 2020 and 2021 than during any time from 2012-2019.

Local hotspots for traffic violence include southeast Queens, the South Bronx, southwest Brooklyn, and the middle of Staten Island.

So , southeast queens, south Bronx, southwest Brooklyn.
Wonder what those areas have in common besides the word South.

[Honda718]

RIP to all those lives lost.

Hopefully people realize that everyone plays a role in pedestrian safety, and not just one side.

[Mr.Retired]

People need refreshers on how to cross the street.
Motorcyclists think they are Easy Riders. Pass the road test please.
Ebikes think they are motorcyclists. Stay off the sidewalks nitwits...
Miles of wasted bike lanes. Thank DeBlasio for the hike in white paint.
25mph speed limit has fizzled...... Can I please take my car off cruise control?


If half the deaths are attributed to SUV's
then then the response would be for
special classification..... like a bus..........
since so many of these drivers need to realize there
are so many children about them dressed in adult bodies.

[martinjsxx]

Yesterday a 13 year old girl got hit by a box truck in Midwood when she got off a bus and walked in front of the stopped bus into a traffic lane. There are calls now for more street safety but it appears the poor girl was at fault. Basic common sense is that you don’t walk into traffic without looking in front of a stopped bus where no driver can see you. So now there will probably be calls for slowing traffic even more because of a pedestrian’s mistake.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MlDUCn49Uw

[sojourn traveller]

Ignorance and arrogance is a dangerous combination. This entire area has that combination in spades.