For the first time in NYC history, a street has been named for a traffic agent. Exactly three years after Donnette Sanz was killed in a tragic accident, family, friends, and NYPD officers gathered at the intersection of East 188th Street and Webster Avenue in the Bronx, which has been renamed Donnette and Sean Sanz Place. Sanz was seven months pregnant at the time of the accident, and her premature son Sean died a week later. more ›

A man accused of beating a Traffic Enforcement Agent in the Bronx so badly that he fractured his skull has turned himself over to police in the Bronx yesterday. Derrick Jordan, 30, was charged with second-degree assault, and according to his neighbor he waited a full day to turn himself in because he was afraid, and because he didn't think the situation was so serious. Then he saw Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly talking about it on the news. more ›

Yesterday morning around 9 a.m. traffic agent Edgar Saeteros, 35, approached a double-parked Mercury in the Parkchester neighborhood of the Bronx. Within minutes he was on his back, "out cold" with a fractured skull, and police are on the lookout for the driver. It shouldn't take too long to track the guy down, however, because the genius fled on foot, leaving his car behind. more ›

Governor Paterson signed legislation making any assault on traffic enforcement agents a possible felony. The Sun reports that previously, an assault on traffic agent was a misdemeanor (up to one year in jail and $1,000 in fines), but now the felony charge could bring 7-8 years in jail. One traffic agent told NY1, "I came out my vehicle to issue a summons, I started and the motorist came out his car and punched me on my head." Police Commissioner Ray Kelly added, "The message here is clear: If you touch a traffic enforcement agent, you go to jail." more ›