Crazy car chase accident in Manhattan ..

[concise]

search my posts on ride-sharing and TLC, I know exactly how uber and lyft operate in this city.

traffic was never this bad which makes your policy choices confusing, we need transportation alternatives! people are buying more and more cars especially since the pandemic and traffic isn't gonna get any better.

i was gonna post some data i was collecting in the NYC bike thread a few months back but my browser crashed and I didn't want to start the research process again. there was a government study that showed that the vast majority of americans on a daily basis don't travel more than 3 miles from their home. now imagine if people had better and more reliable public transit or protected bike lanes where they can choose those methods of transportation instead of driving everywhere.

parking is bad in NYC, a place in which more than half the residents don't own cars. how do you not see the parking and traffic situation getting worse if folks feel like they have to own a car to get around?

one night about 3 years ago I spent 3 hours looking for parking 11:xx pm to 2:xx am and it wasn't because of open streets, uber or lyft.

"we need transportation alternatives"

in a city that has straight up cut bus lines several times over the years.

in a city that has added 4 subway stops in 30 years, no new subway lines, with one whole borough still having no subway access to the rest of the city. Subway service between the boroughs remains abysmal as way too many point A to point B trips between Brooklyn and Queens require a detour through Manhattan.

My favorite part of mass transit in this city is that it is at its worst on weekends, when everyone and their mama seems to jump into a car and drive around. Wouldn't it make more sense to have no reduction in service on the weekends to keep people out of their cars if that's your actual goal?



Most Americans don't travel more than 3 miles from home ... that's cool but completely ignores that most people in NYC work in Manhattan or the commercial centers of their boroughs.



Cut it out with the nonsense.

 

[Him]

Legit no time to react at all, dude in black saw it coming and dude in blue was already dead before he even hit the wall. Fuuuuuuuck

 

[concise]

I should be able to come and go as I please, and what I own, purchase, or do with my money should be up to me

When we start talking about what we "need" and "don't need" is when we start getting into dangerous territory breh because there's a fukk ton of shyt we "don't need" if we want to be completely honest.

You don't need a car if you live in MANHATTAN and that's where people get it twisted

All this stuff is sounding eerily similar to the low parkway bridge design choices made when Nassau and Suffolk were modernized in the 1900s.

 

[ExodusNirvana]

All this stuff is sounding eerily similar to the low parkway bridge design choices made when Nassau and Suffolk were modernized in the 1900s.

It's a complicated issue trust me I know

They used to build parkways and overpasses so that people (Black people) couldn't move about the city and Long Island without a whip

Now what they're saying is that people can't move about freely unless it generates revenue for the state and in ways that they deem "safe" or "climate friendly"

You got entire city blocks filled with Citibikes that no one is using, plopped down in neighborhoods without input from the residents, who yes, need these areas to park their cars or hell, even for their guests to park.

Imagine you got family coming up, driving in, but they can't park up on your block.

No no they MUST take the train in...or take the bus, so that the poorly managed MTA can make up budget gaps despite poor service and station conditions.

Imagine you got family members that need to go to doctors appointments or other important events, but oh no, whether it's rain sleet hail or snow you should pack your ass on them same shytty public transportation methods or...lol ride a bike

Dudes are being unreasonable and they can't even see it. This is why I doubt that dude is from here because the only people that go this hard against cars are bearded CAC bike bros who don't like cars

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

No way they had time to react properly to that

nikkas not Spider Man. That’s a tough way to go smh RIP

he should have hopped behind the car parked to the left and grabbed his boy with him. but since he didn't the next best thing to do would be to get behind his boy, let him take the brunt of it and then just roll with the impact against the wall into an upward momentum then let gravity do the rest as you rain upon the driver with vengeance.

 

[ExodusNirvana]

he should have hopped behind the car parked to the left and grabbed his boy with him. but since he didn't the next best thing to do would be to get behind his boy, let him take the brunt of it and then just roll with the impact against the wall into an upward momentum then let gravity do the rest as you rain upon the driver with vengeance.

Pretty dark for a Friday, Fetus

 

[kdslittlebro]

That is fukked up man their very last moment and they had no clue

 

[kdslittlebro]

Never made sense how you have to be 21 to drink but you can drive a deadly weapon when you’re a teenager. Ridiculous.

Tbf society would need to be completely rewritten (not a bad idea in general ) to accommodate no capability of personal transportation until 21, in all but the most densely populated cities, since public transit would need to finally be updated to modern standards

 

[Greenhornet]

if you pause as they hit the wall
they both go completely flat

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

Tbf society would need to be completely rewritten (not a bad idea in general ) to accommodate no capability of personal transportation until 21, in all but the most densely populated cities, since public transit would need to finally be updated to modern standards

one could say that you are creating a larger pool of inexperienced drivers by raising the age to 21. by the time i was 21 i had my license for 5 years accident free. to this day i'm still accident free and moving violation free.

 

[bnew]

Bronx driver indicted on manslaughter charges for Inwood crash that killed two | amNewYork

A driver was indicted on manslaughter charges for allegedly killing two men in a brutal Inwood crash two months ago.

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Bronx driver indicted on manslaughter charges for Inwood crash that killed two​

By Kevin DugganPosted on October 3, 2022

Witness footage on the Citizen App shows the mangled car wreck on the sidewalk on Sherman Avenue and W. 207th Street on Aug. 3.
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A driver was indicted on manslaughter charges for allegedly killing two men in a brutal Inwood crash two months ago, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced Monday.

Bronxite Leandro Diaz-Ramirez, 28, faces five to 15 years behind bars for the crash that killed Joel Adames and David Fernandez, and injured several more in the uptown neighborhood during the early hours of Aug. 3, according to the D.A.’s office.


“As alleged, this reckless speeding and driving ended in tragedy,” D.A. Bragg said in a statement on Oct. 3. “Manhattanites should not be killed by drivers when they are simply walking in their neighborhood. We will continue to protect the safety of pedestrians and drivers on our streets.”

Diaz-Ramirez allegedly sped through a red light at Sherman Avenue and W. 207th Street at around 4 a.m., going 59 miles per hour — more than double the 25 mph limit — and T-boning another driver in a Subaru, sending the other vehicle skidding onto the sidewalk and crushing pedestrians Adames, 31, and Fernandez, 40.

Manhattan’s top prosecutor also charged the defendant with criminally negligent homicide for both the victims that died.

Diaz-Ramirez got another four charges of assault for injuring four other people in the collision, including the Subaru driver, who suffered broken ribs and pelvis.

He stayed on the scene after the crash, but cops didn’t arrest him until more than a month later on Sept. 14.


His attorney, Tracey Kim Tae of the Legal Aid Society, declined to comment through a spokesperson for the legal organization.

The 34th Precinct covering Inwood and Washington Heights has had an uptick in crash fatalities so far this year, with one more death for a total of five in 2022, compared to four during the same time last year.

Meanwhile, overall city road deaths are on the decline by 5.1% during that time, according to NYPD statistics through Sunday.

Sherman Avenue is a known dangerous roadway that city street planners have been trying to make safer with redesigns for years.

Over the past 11 years, 79 people have been injured and two have died in 58 crashes just at that intersection, according to data collected by the website Crash Mapper.