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Yesterday we mentioned that there was a car crash—which included an overturned taxi car—at 24th Street and 7th Avenue. Streetsblog has two photographs of the scene and it looks like the crash involved two cabs. Three people were injured, one of them critically, in the 1:45 p.m. incident, but there are no other details about what happened. Well, we can imagine.
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It really is time to re-train, re-test and re-license commercial drivers on New York streets.
Manhattan is not I-95 with a guardrail, grass median and sound barrier between cars and pedestrians. To think that the same safety standards and practices should apply is ludicrous.
I'm willing to bet that there are not a great many more accidents than there used to be, but thanks to blogs and probably 90% of NYers carrying a camera of some sort at all times nowadays, we just hear about them way more than we used to.
Of course you're right, so what do you suggest, fewer blogs and camera-phones, or safer drivers?
I gotta start wearing my seatbelt in cabs more often. I'm not judging the circumstances of this accident, but I'm sure the statistic of percentage of passengers that wear seatbelts is in the single digits.
With the all the public health and safety campaigns going on these days, I can't believe it's never been a bigger issue?
It's all Bloomberg's fault with those smaller cabs flitting around the city like so many bedbugs in a homeless shelter.
Bring back legal fireworks on the streets of New York now!
Just an accident, no one's fault. Could have happened to anyone. Maybe the brakes failed. Might have been cut off. Could have happened to anyone. Just an accident. No one's fault.
Could you repeat that in an Arabic language so most cab drivers can understand?
Oh snap snoop, good one!
An Arabic language...man, that's something.