A pedestrian was struck on Canal Street by a truck, and a witness at the scene said, "His face was all bloody. His knee was all bloody. His pants were ripped up." The witness did not see the victim being hit by the truck, described as a large oil tanker, but he did see the truck speeding east. more ›

An off-duty cop has been charged with killing a man while allegedly driving drunk early Wednesday morning in the Bronx. According to police, rookie officer Luis Arnao, 25, struck Tyre Chisholm, 22, with his 2011 Honda Accord as Chisholm was crossing the street on White Plains Road near 241st Street just before 4 a.m. "He got hit hard. He flew up in the air. His shoes flew off with his socks still in them," said witness Devine Douglas. more ›

It's every pedestrian's nightmare: a Brooklyn woman says she was thrown into traffic and severely injured when a Walk/Don't Walk sign came dislodged from its post and fell on her. First pedestrians have to deal with a bipolar signal man, and now we have to worry about him coming crashing down? It's no way to walk, man. more ›

Today's lesson: Sanitation Department workers aren't all as lovable as Roc. When they have bad days, they will make sure someone feels their wrath. Darbe Pitofsky, an 83-year-old Upper East Sider, learned this lesson the hard way. She says that she was recently chased down and screamed at by a sanitation agent; then given a $100 fine, all for dumping her trash in a corner trash receptacle. more ›

An NYPD van driven by an 85-year-old auxiliary police chief veered onto the sidewalk yesterday morning in Chinatown, killing a pedestrian. 55-year-old Kok Hoe Tee was walking down Elizabeth Street as Shuck Seid was pulling out of a parking space next to 5th precinct headquarters and lost control of the van, striking Tee and another police vehicle. Tee was pinned under the van's front axle before being hurried to New York Downtown Hospital where he died at 11:45 a.m. more ›

Yesterday afternoon, a driver with a suspended license was backing up on Amsterdam Avenue to get a parking space and struck two women crossing the street at West 98th Street. Yolanda Casal, 78, was pronounced dead at the hospital while the other woman, her 41-year-old daughter Anais Emanuel, was in stable condition. A witness told the Post, "They had the right of way and that guy just kept backing up. He was trying to get that spot." more ›

A 68-year-old man standing on a sidewalk in Long Island City was killed when a car from the Ed Koch Queensboro bridge flew towards him. According to WABC 7, "Police say the driver of the car lost control, flipping onto the sidewalk on Queens Plaza South at Crescent Street just after 4 a.m. Monday." The driver, who was taken to Bellevue, lost his arm; a man who saw the scene and called 911 told the Daily News, "It was a horror movie - pools of blood running onto the street." more ›

Yesterday, a pedestrian was fatally hit by a private sanitation truck in an accident at the Myrtle Avenue and Broadway intersection in Brooklyn. The victim, who was identified by police as a black male in his 60s, was struck by an employee of Yankel's Demolition and Rubbish Removal while crossing the street; he was DOA on the scene, and the driver hasn't been charged with anything. A reader wrote us with this eyewitness account of the accident: more ›

A pedestrian was fatally hit by a sanitation truck earlier this morning at the Myrtle Avenue and Broadway intersection in Brooklyn. The victim, a black male in his 60s, was hit by a private sanitation truck as he was crossing the street around 7 a.m. The victim was pronounced DOA on the scene, but the truck operator, an employee of Yankel's Demolition and Rubbish Removal, wasn't arrested and hasn't been charged. more ›

Yesterday, a jury found a man guilty of manslaughter, assault and operating a motor vehicle while under the influence for fatally striking a pregnant woman on a Midtown sidewalk in March 2009. Ysemny Ramos was walking on East 37th Street when she was run over by Keston Brown. Brown was acquitted of aggravated vehicular homicide and five other charges, but his lawyer said, "You always want a complete victory. My client is still in there." more ›

According to new data released from the Department of Health [pdf], the city's traffic fatality rate is at an all-time low, decreasing 20% from 2005 to 2009. Last year, there were just 256 traffic-related fatalities. But that's still 256 people that didn't have to die, and according to the DOH, "45% of those killed at intersections by motor vehicles were obeying traffic signals when they were struck." more ›

Last year, a pregnant mother of three walking on East 37th Street was killed when a Gristede's van driver jumped a curb and barreled into her. Another woman was injured and the driver, Keston Brown, was found with a 0.11 blood alcohol level. Yesterday, Brown went on trial for Ramos' death, and a prosecutor accused him of hitting the gas instead of the brakes when the van—"essentially a moving weapon"—hit the curb. more ›

Yesterday NYPD commissioner Ray Kelly shrugged off calls for an investigation into the NYPD's ticket quotas, telling reporters, he didn't "see any problem" with two 77th Precinct memos obtained by the Daily News that itemized how many moving violations officers need to hand out in a week. "We have productivity goals, just like your job does, just like any job does," Kelly said yesterday. In light of that, today ABC 7 points us to an incident that was caught on tape last month in Crown Heights, when three men conversing outside a residence at 10 p.m. were stopped by what appear to be rookie cops, ordered to disperse, and then issued summonses for blocking pedestrian traffic. more ›

"Streaks of blood marked Rockaway Parkway" in Canarsie this morning, where a 13-year-old girl was killed while trying to cross the four-lane road in the middle of the block, the Daily News reports. The unidentified teen was hit by a BMW at 7:50 a.m. while on her way to Canarsie High School. After running over the teen, the BMW, driven by an unidentified man in his 40s, crashed into several parked cars. "There was a large explosion and the girl was on the road," one witness said. "She was lying flat, head down." more ›

Well, looky here: Despite the knee-jerk opposition from local property owners, the DOT is marching forward with big changes to Broadway and Union Square north. As you may recall, the city is turning a block of Broadway north of Union Square into another pedestrian plaza, which would extend along East 17th Street to the eastern corner of the park, at Park Avenue South. Pedestrian Plazas: Everywhere and Forever. more ›

Realizing the worst fears of cantankerous Post columnists Steve Cuozzo and Andrea Peyser, the DOT seems to be moving toward a completely car-free stretch of Broadway in midtown. Pedestrians, cyclists, and many merchants have praised NYC DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan for her ambitious reboot of Broadway, which has already banned motor vehicles from seven blocks of Broadway in Times Square and Herald Square, and replaced car lanes with bike lanes all the way down to Union Square. Now come hints that Sadik-Khan's Master Plan may be to banish motorists from Broadway throughout midtown. more ›

In an effort to drive up public awareness for "Elle's Law", a new driving law giving harsher punishments to drivers who hit pedestrians while driving recklessly, the state is unveiling an ad campaign with catchy slogans like “Reckless Driving Wrecks Lives,” “Children Break… When Drivers Don’t,” and “She Almost Died For A Parking Space." more ›

Earlier this morning, three pedestrians were struck by a car being pursued by the police. The incident occurred at West 122nd Street and Lenox Avenue, when the car jumped the curb. The Post says the police were involved in a "high-speed chase": "Cops were chasing the man because he was believed to be in possession of a gun." more ›

After concluding an $800,000 pilot program that began back in 2006, the DOT is ready to start installing thousands of countdown clocks at busy intersections in all five boroughs. After analyzing "mountains of data" gathered at 25 intersections equipped with cameras to videotape pedestrians, the DOT determined that the timers are most effective on wide streets. more ›

The driver who fatally ran over a 28-year-old web designer in Greenpoint last Sunday remains at large, but many people in the neighborhood say the street where the accident took place is guilty, too. Williamsburg resident Neil Chamberlain was killed by a driver who sped onto Calyer Street from McGuinness Boulevard, a stretch of road so notorious for reckless driving that local activists have been studying it since last month. According to their observations, McGuinness is Brooklyn's answer to Queens Boulevard, AKA The Boulevard of Death. more ›

The city has pedestrian plaza fever: Now that Times Square and Herald Square have traded in cars for cafe tables (a plan in store for 34th Street, too), Union Square may be getting its own pedestrian mall. According to the NY Times, "Almost all traffic would be banned from the block of Broadway north of Union Square, between 17th and 18th Streets," and "East 17th Street, meanwhile, would become one-way, with only westbound traffic allowed in a single lane." more ›

Now that the Department of Transportation has revealed its latest congestion-fighting strategy—creating another pedestrian mall in Herald Square and giving buses half of 34th Street—the reactions are coming from pedestrians and drivers. Naturally, they have very different opinions! One driver complained to NY1, "Bad enough they closed Broadway. We can't even turn up and down Broadway. It will make it even more worse than what it already is," but a pedestrian said to the Daily News, "I wish they would do it tomorrow." more ›

A drunken hit-and-run driver was a dead duck by the time police found him, slumped unconscious over the wheel of his Chevy minivan in Dyker Heights. After striking a pedestrian in his 50’s as he was crossing the street, 24-year-old Luis Cuamai attempted to flee the scene, but crashed into a parked car two blocks away and knocked himself out. According to the News, cops found him around 3:30 p.m. yesterday and charged him with drunk driving and leaving the scene of an accident, among other things. As for the victim, "He was lying in the middle of the street with blood pouring out of his head," said one witness. Despite that grim report, he is now at Lutheran Medical Center where doctors say he should survive. more ›

While traveling to Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral this morning, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly tended to a woman who suffered a fractured skull after being run down by a cyclist. In his second well-publicized rescue this month, the potential 2013 Mayoral candidate hopped out of his unmarked police SUV at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 84th Street and helped 55-year-old Kinuko Hoffman, who was bleeding from the head after being struck by a deliveryman. more ›

Despite the picture, nursing student Theressa Compere says the injury inflicted when a B6 painfully peeled the skin from her ankle three years ago has left her permanently unable to wear mini skirts and shorts. (Here she is wearing pants.) In 2008 the teen was crossing a Brooklyn intersection when the B6 bus rolled on top of her foot. Damage might have been minimal, reports the Daily News, had the driver not turned the wheel—causing the skin to come off completely—but backed up instead. Now, she says "when I go to the beach I have to cover up. I can't wear heels and it hurts when I walk up a flight of stairs." Compere is suing the city, demanding reparation for the accident that hospitalized her and caused her great pain and inconvenience. more ›

Hotly-anticipated peace talks between supporters and opponents of the recently-erased Bedford Avenue bicycle lane fell short last night when both parties left a discussion at Pete's Candy Store in Williamsburg with the same seemingly irreparable differences that they brought to the table. Supporters of the Bedford Avenue lane insisted that a biking path on Brooklyn's longest road is necessary for both transportation and safety, while a community activist representing South Williamsburg's Hasidic Jewish residents expressed concerns about dangerous biking etiquette. more ›

A Queens man was sentenced to 15 years in prison for stealing a car and hitting and killing two pedestrians when he was drunk and on pills. Kenneth Guyear pleaded guilty to vehicular manslaughter yesterday in the deaths of Robert Ogle, 16, and Alex Paul, 20, who were killed in Middle Village in February, according to the Post. The judge sentenced Guyear to the maximum prison term for the offense after he confessed to having five or six drinks and consuming two Xanax pills before stealing a car that was idling in front of a deli and striking the victims. Guyear — as well as the man whose car was stolen and the parents who allowed the underage victims to drink at their home before the incident — still face a civil suit from Ogle's parents. more ›

A chain-reaction car crash claimed the life of a Marine Park senior on Monday. Edith Shaller, 88, was walking home from the doctor's office on Avenue U near the corner of Hendrickson Street at around 3:30 pm when a black Lexus sedan rammed a green Chevy van onto the sidewalk, pinning the grandmother against a light pole. more ›

As the NY Post continues their takedown of the pedicab industry today, we wonder who causes the most trouble on the city's streets. more ›