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This is grim, for a second weekend in a row, three pedestrians were killed in separate incidents with vehicles:
- A 71-year-old Queens woman was killed yesterday afternoon while walking around 84th Street and Third Avenue in Manhattan; the driver stayed on the scene and was not charged. Ariela Koenigsburg was headed to her daughter's house to celebrate her 71st birthday. The cops suggested Koenigsburg may have been jaywalking, but her daughter says that's impossible.And two young women were injured in the East Tremont section of the Bronx. After the fatalities from two weekends ago, the Department of Transportation said, "[I]n the wake of several tragic accidents, it is clear that more needs to be done, and DOT is committed to taking further steps to make the streets as safe as possible." We'll see if that happens.
- A 47-year-old man was killed at West 31st and Surf Avenue in Brooklyn around 2AM; the Lincoln Town Car that hit him fled.
- A Dodge Caravan hit three pedestrians on Neptune near West 24th in Brooklyn; a 68-year-old was killed. The Caravan's driver stayed on the scene.
Photograph from last week's Pedestrian Rally by Gary Kahn
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Here's a thought. Pedestrians are being run down so often in NYC because careless, angry drivers who don't want to wait for the elderly or others to jaywalk in front of them, especially when they have a green light(as in the UES case) miscalculate their ability to continue on their anger fueled way while maneuvering around these obstacles. Accident? Yes. An avoidable one? Definitely.
Why would a 71 year old jaywalk? unless she had a deathwish. I rarely, if ever, seen an elderly person not cross at the crosswalk.
Accident? Yes. An avoidable one? Definitely.
It would've been avoidable has she not been jaywalking.
taking further steps to make the streets as safe as possible.
The streets are safe. Pedestrians should be walking on the sidewalks as intended and only cross at crosswalks as intended.
Drivers have a responsibility to watch for and not hit those who may chose to take an unnecessary risk and jaywalk, like it or not.
You're absolutely right, Road Rage. It's outrageous . This is partly or mostly caused by a 50's era transportation policy focused on squeezing into and moving through the city as many private cars per hour as possible. While major international cities like Paris, London Berlin, etc. started curbing private motor traffic decades ago, NYC is still to this day and age hopelessly stuck on a "holy car" culture. It would be so easy and cheap to change this and make our streets safer and friendlier to users other than cars..
Or, perhaps, if a good portion of native New Yorkers and cabbies would stop driving like assholes...
There's absolutely no sound reason why these people HAVE to squeeze into EVERY single space.
There's absolutely no sound reason why these people HAVE to get "one car ahead" so they'll get stuck in traffic faster.
There's absolutely no sound reason why these people HAVE to have monstrous SUV/pickup trucks... when they don't even work in professions that would require you to own something like that.
hey, is that Will Ferrell.. NW of center in the photo
Saw a truck with a tractor attached through it speed through a green light changing red (it was actually red) at 23rd and 7th avenue, half a block from a Center for the Blind, an intersection where many blind/elderly folks are crossing. There must be a crackdown on these speeding cars, especially trucks.
a green light changing red (it was actually red)
What happened to the yellow light?? Are you blind too??
What happened to the yellow light?? Are you blind too??
No, i'm a pedestrian, not a driver. I just notice the flashing lights before making my decision to cross or not.
damn, people are really rude around here...
"hey, is that Will Ferrell.. NW of center in the photo"
with the paper hand hiding the face?