Cops Shot Far Rockaway Teen 11 Times
Video: New School Students, Comrades Toss Trash Pre-Arrest
Turkey Cruelty Ad Nixed By NBC
Schumer: "Real Momentum" For Health Care Reform Now
Would You Be Comfortable Locked On A Train With A Murderer?
Four more people can be added to the total number of New Yorkers who have been run down by drivers finding it difficult to stay on the road this weekend. In the fourth incident in two days, two toddlers were badly injured when a 16-year-old driver swerved onto the sidewalk in Flatbush, Brooklyn and injured two children and two young women. Both of the toddlers needed to be hospitalized--one in critical condition and the other in stable condition.
The Saturday accident comes fresh on the heels of three accidents Friday in which sidewalk pedestrians were mowed down by careening cars. Several people were hurt in Chinatown when a man backing his car into a parking spot jumped the curb and crashed into a bench with lunch time gatherers. Almost a dozen other people were injured as an unlicensed driver lurched from 7th Ave. in midtown Manhattan into a crowd of rush hour pedestrians near Penn station. And a woman was struck in Harlem by a livery cab driver who mistook the gas for the brake on his car.
The driver in Saturday's incident was Akeem Grant, who ended his ride by crashing into a tree planted in the sidewalk on East 19th St. in Brooklyn. He ran from the scene, leaving behind the bloodied children he just ran over. Cops quickly caught him, however, and he was arrested.
add to stumble upon
add to reddit
tweet this
post to facebook
"...two toddlers were badly injured when a 16-year-old driver swerved onto the sidewalk in Flatbush, Brooklyn and injured two children and two young women."
16-year-old driver?
In NYC you need to be 17 to drive alone.
At 16 you need to be with your parent or guardian (who's a minimum of 21 with a valid license for that vehicle) and the vehicle must have dual brakes.
http://www.nydmv.state.ny.us/broch/c41.htm
16 years old? Jesus.
How about we starting treating driving and the ownership of vehicles a little more seriously than mere extensions of our genitalia or fashion accessories? People (and by that I mean "Americans") seem to think of driving as a right rather than a privilege and seem to think of the road as a huge video game. Perhaps Mr. Grant was surprised that he could not just go back to the last save point and have a do-over.
"And a woman was struck in Harlem by a livery cab driver who mistook the gas for the brake on his car."
Listen guy, the one on the right! The gas is the one on the right!
It's important for people to remember to ALWAYS look both ways before exiting a building or walking anywhere at all times.
[1] Read the article. The driver didn't care about such laws. He didn't have any kind of license!
Car use in the city is for the most part discretionary. Only a minority really, desperately need a car. But people will never give them up. We need $10 per gallon gas.