RECENT STUDIES SHOW U.S. ROADWAYS ARE SOME OF THE MOST DANGEROUS IN THE INDUSTRIALIZED WORLD

Millions of Americans climb into their cars every day to get to work, to shop, to visit family and friends and for a host of other reasons. “Tragically,” Jay W. Dankner, managing partner of the top New York auto accident injury law firm of Dankner Milstein, P.C. said, “many of those unsuspecting drivers behind the wheel of their cars, and their unwary passengers will actually be traveling on what recent studies show are some of

February 11, 2018

Staggering Numbers of New York City Agency Crashes

A first-of-its-kind report from New York City’s CRASH database – launched to track collisions involving government agency vehicles — reveals some surprising as well as expected findings. And experts say the figures are astonishing.Government vehicles involved in accidents across all city agencies, except the New York Police Department, totaled 5,605 in 2014, the most recent complete year of figures collected. This equates to 5% of all vehicle-related accidents in New York City and the surrounding

October 16, 2015

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

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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