Crime & Safety
11 New York City Pedestrians Killed by Cars in 1 Week
Including 70-year-old Carol Bell, a Bed-Stuy resident allegedly killed by a hit-and-run MTA bus driver.
”For many, many years in this country, the car has been a little too sacred,” NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio told reporters at a press conference on Friday, Nov. 6, after a bloody week of eight pedestrian killings throughout the city.
The victims included 70-year-old Carol Bell, a Bed-Stuy resident allegedly mowed down by a hit-and-run MTA bus driver who apparently swerved into the wrong lane.
“I think a lot of it is, people who have a license and are not under the influence, but are driving too fast,” the mayor said, according to Gothamist. “I still think that’s our number one problem, and not being mindful and not respecting pedestrians.”
Yet by the end of the weekend, three more pedestrians, all of them elderly, had been killed — bringing the week’s death toll to 11.
“What vision zero?” asked the New York Daily News.
According to the Daily News:
The latest victims were an 86-year-old woman who died after a car rammed into her on the Upper West Side Friday afternoon, a 68-year-old man struck Saturday night in Ozone Park, Queens and a 88-year-old woman also struck on the Upper West Side Sunday morning.
The solution to all this carnage, according to NYC Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg?
Better pedestrians.
“You have to be alert when you walk the busy streets of New York, we all do,” she said at Friday’s press conference.
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