Cyclist fatalities
The man was killed less than a block from his home.
Pedestrian and cyclist deaths increased in 2019.
2019 has been the deadliest year for cyclists since 2000.
The driver was charged with charged with unlicensed driving, failing to exercise due care and failure to yield to pedestrians.
A 14-year-old cyclist was killed and a 16-year-old cyclist was critically injured in two separate crashes on city streets this weekend.
Between 2006 and 2016, only 11 percent of cyclist fatalities occurred on streets without bike safety infrastructure.
Twenty cyclists died in traffic crashes in the last fiscal year, up from 16 in FY 2015, according to the mayor's office.
"I think the police need to be looking for the murderer and not ticketing bicyclists."
This isn't the only drunk driver to benefit from a lenient Queens DA's office.
Fed up with being stonewalled by the NYPD, the family of Mathieu Lefevre—an artist killed by a flatbed truck driver while riding his bike in Williamsburg in October—has filed a lawsuit in state Supreme Court.