Traffic fatalities
The company whose driver struck the child has been involved in a number of fatal crashes in recent year.
Twenty cyclists died in traffic crashes in the last fiscal year, up from 16 in FY 2015, according to the mayor's office.
As one cop put it, "We are seeing more people hit by cars than bullets."
WNYC has now set up an interactive graphic, which you can see below, to keep track of all the traffic deaths in 2014. So far, charges have only been filed in seven cases.
De Blasio had a plan to hold cabbies more accountable in the future: taxi black boxes.
The DOT today changed signs along Prospect Park West, lowering the speed limit from 30 to 25 mph.
Intro 1055 requires the department to publish quarterly hit and run reports online.
88% of Brooklyn drivers break the 30 mph speed limit.
A 7-year-old boy was struck and killed by the driver of a Toyota SUV in Ridgewood shortly before 7 p.m. last night.
It's the fourth fatal hit and run in four days, but the fifth pedestrian fatality in as much time.