YES, MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENTS IN NEW YORK CITY ARE ON THE DECLINE…

…BUT A RECENT REPORT FROM THE NYPD CLEARLY INDICATES THAT MAKING NEW YORK CITY STREETS SAFER FOR PEDESTRIANS IS A JOB THAT IS FAR FROM OVER While the pedestrian fatality rate in New York City due to motor vehicle accidents is now better than it is in many other major cities in the United States, and even as the number of injuries to pedestrians caused by motor vehicles continues a steady year-to-year decline since Mayor

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PREVENTING A PEDESTRIAN AUTO ACCIDENT

LOOK BOTH WAYS BEFORE TAKING FIRST STEP Martin Scorcese’s 1973 film Mean Streets is a story about a small-time hood who struggles to survive on the rough and tumble streets of New York. But unlike the Academy Award-winning director’s tale of a young thug trying to work his way up the ladder in the local Mafia, when top New York pedestrian car, truck and bus accident lawyer Jay Dankner refers to the city’s “mean streets,” he’s talking about the dangers

October 28, 2014

Twelve Tips From New York City’s Top Pedestrian Auto, Truck and Bus Accident Law Firm

GETTING AROUND TOWN SAFELY ON FOOT Compared with other major cities around the world, like Paris with its circuitous arrondissements and Tokyo with its bewildering maze of themed districts, New York City, especially the borough of Manhattan, is a relatively easy place to navigate. For the most part, the avenues run north and south and the streets go east and west in numerical order. There are exceptions, like Greenwich Village and SoHo, which are arranged

October 8, 2014

New York City’s “Vision Zero Action Plan” Puts Brakes on Motor Vehicle & Pedestrian Accidents

Mayor de Blasio Announces Effort To Reduce — and Possibly Eliminate — Automobile Accident and Traffic Deaths Citywide Mayor de Blasio released his administration’s Vision Zero Action Plan on February 18, 2014. The plan outlines in detail Hizzoner’s ambitious goal to significantly reduce auto and traffic-related pedestrian accident deaths on New York City streets. In making his announcement, the mayor said that pedestrian deaths are at “epidemic proportions, and there’s nothing we’re doing that could be more

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