"The first came on Wednesday night, when an MTA bus driver sideswiped a KIA Carnival minivan in Downtown Brooklyn. The driver had illegally parked the white minivan in a painted buffer on Adams Street and decorated it with an NYPD parking placard in the dash to fend off traffic enforcement agents."
"The second incident came on Thursday morning, when the driver of a Ford SUV ran over and killed a 4-year-old boy on Rockaway Parkway and Linden Boulevard, near the border of Brownsville and Canarsie in Brooklyn. After the driver fled the scene, anonymous NYPD sources told the New York Post that the victim had been "running" and "dashed away from his mom" before the driver struck him."
"The intersection of Linden Boulevard and Rockaway Parkway is designed for danger. Since January 2022, there have been 368 reported crashes in just a three-block radius of the intersection, injuring 215 people, including 29 pedestrians, 11 cyclists and 175 people inside cars, according to city stats."
Two recent incidents highlight systemic failures by NYPD and city infrastructure. An MTA bus collided with a minivan illegally parked in a buffer zone using a real NYPD parking placard, causing significant traffic delays in Downtown Brooklyn. The same day, a 4-year-old child was killed by a hit-and-run driver at an intersection notorious for crashes. Since January 2022, the Linden Boulevard and Rockaway Parkway intersection has recorded 368 crashes injuring 215 people. NYPD sources blamed the victim for the fatal collision. These incidents reveal widespread abuse of parking privileges by officers and dangerous street design that predictably endangers pedestrians and cyclists.
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