Pedestrian deaths soar in early 2022, gruesome city stats showBy Nolan Hicks
April 20, 2022
The number of New Yorkers killed on city streets in traffic-related incidents skyrocketed during the first three months of 2022 to an alarming level not seen in years, according to a new study set to be released by a transportation advocacy group.
In the first quarter of this year, 59 people, many of them pedestrians, were struck and killed in the Big Apple — a whopping 44 percent increase from the first three months of 2021.
The jarring number of fatalities is the highest number of deaths on city streets since at least 2014, when then-Mayor Bill de Blasio first rolled out his Vision Zero initiative.
The analysis from Transportation Alternatives and Families for Safe Streets shows that half of those killed on city streets, 29 people, were pedestrians.
“From children in Queens to seniors in Brooklyn, too many New Yorkers are killed simply waiting for the bus or crossing the street, and the numbers are only increasing,” said Danny Harris, who heads Transportation Alternatives, in a statement.
Harris called on Albany lawmakers to allow Mayor Eric Adams to reduce speed limits on some city streets and expand the Big Apple’s camera enforcement programs as one way to combat the carnage.
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https://nypost.com/2022/04/20/pedestrian-deaths-soar-in-early-22-gruesome-city-stats-show/
