"She was hysterical, she had her hands over her eyes. And I think the baby left in the ambulance without her because we saw the mother get into a police vehicle...And I just said we're praying for you and she said thank you."
The real problem is infrastructure, not vehicle safety. Roadways are open systems with infinite variables—weather, pedestrians, distracted drivers, and aging infrastructure. Communication between vehicles is minimal, and infrastructure is largely silent—and in that gap lies the potential for deadly collisions.
Celeste Rivas Hernandez died of multiple penetrating injuries, as confirmed by the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner. An autopsy was performed on September 10, 2025.
A state judge has ruled that every red-light ticket written to a cyclist under the state's vehicle and traffic law since 2019 is bogus. The city legalized the practice of biking through a red light on a pedestrian 'walk' signal, yet NYPD cops have been wrongly writing tickets for cyclists who go through the 'red' on the walk signal.
"If we can get more folks off all the roads and their personal vehicles and use the safer service which our stats show, at least in our service in the cities where we operate, we are contributing to less crashes," Anthony Perez, Waymo's northeast policy manager, stated.
The Central East division will use the UTV to respond quickly to drug use and crime in rural areas, as well as downtown in trails, parks and areas near railway corridors.
Friends remembered Spillman as supportive and caring, someone who built family wherever she went. 'Very sweet. She always was supporting me, family and friends everyone,' said Theresa Jenny Cabanag, a friend of Spillman's.
MTA workers are illegally parking on sidewalks outside a transit complex in Astoria, with some leaving MTA-branded high-visibility vests on their dashboards, seemingly to avoid tickets.
Hundreds of preventable fatalities and more than 13 million metric tons of climate pollution would be avoided by 2045 if Congress passed legislation that answered advocates' long- time demand to require state DOTs to set declining annual fatality targets - and reallocate highway money to safety projects if they don't meet those goals, according to a new analysis from Evergreen Action.
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 mapped by Crash Count.