A man was fatally struck and dragged by a truck driver in Bushwick, with little media coverage. The victim's name remains undisclosed, and initial reports about the truck's identity were incorrect. Fatalities from drivers often go unpunished, while attention shifts to cyclists. The NYPD reports a 9% drop in crashes this year, largely attributed to congestion pricing. Nevertheless, NYC experiences an average of 225 crashes and 95 injury-related incidents daily. Lowering speed limits may help, but the impact of car use continues to devastate families weekly.
Drivers kill. They flee the scene. And they are rarely caught. Meanwhile, the city elite focuses its attention on reining in supposedly rogue cyclists even though they don't commit carnage on anywhere close to the scale that drivers do.
Even with that reduction, there are still an average of 225 reported crashes every single day in this city. And there are an average of 95 reported crashes with injuries every single day.
Lower speed limits help reduce the carnage of crashes, but hundreds of people's lives – including the family of the unidentified Brooklyn hit-and-run victim from the weekend – are incalculably altered every week by the toll of car use in this city.
Crashes are down more than 9 percent this year, according to the NYPD, and the theory is that congestion pricing is playing a role in reducing road violence.
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