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btw snappy, the guy helping the woman up is a useless unionized overpaid over-pensioned city worker, whose task is to collect quarters from the meters (you can see the cart in the background). What was he thinking, he should be doing his job! Thank goodness he will soon be replaced by those automated parking kiosks.
it’s quite amazing how many people in this city walk around with $1,000+ cameras around their neck like they’re a fashion accessory (just an observation)
of course snappy… the other day on 5th Ave I saw a woman pull a u-turn right in front of an oncoming motorcyclist, knocking her down, but fortunately she was not seriously injured.
ROFL! Driver musta been smokin’ crack…front end of the car had zero damage, thus nothing pushed him/her into the store. I’m not even sure how the driver managed that. He/She had to have hit the gas REALLY hard to back into the store that far and that hard.
Deadliest for City’s Walkers: Male Drivers, Left Turns
By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM
Want to take a safe stroll around New York City? Avoid crossing at intersections. Pay special heed to cars making left turns. Do not go anywhere between 3 p.m. and 9 p.m., stick to the side streets and skip Manhattan entirely.
It has never been easy to safely navigate the streets of New York, where automobiles zip inches away from smartphone-toting pedestrians and the footrace across an intersection has been compared to a game of human Frogger.
But a report released Monday by the city’s transportation planners offers unique insight into the precarious life on the city’s streets — pinpointing where, when and why pedestrian accidents have most often occurred — while undercutting some of the century-old assumptions about transportation in the country’s biggest city.
Taxis, it turns out, were no careering menace: cabs accounted for far fewer pedestrian accidents in Manhattan than privately owned vehicles. Jaywalkers, surely the city’s most numerous scofflaws, were involved in fewer collisions than their law-abiding counterparts who waited for the “walk†sign — although accidents involving jaywalkers are more likely to result in death.
And one discovery could permanently upend one of the uglier stereotypes of the motoring world: in 80 percent of city accidents that resulted in a pedestrian’s death or serious injury, a male driver was behind the wheel. (Fifty-seven percent of New York City vehicles are registered to men.)
The study, which the city’s Transportation Department described as the most ambitious of its kind by an American city, examined more than 7,000 crashes that occurred in New York City between 2002 and 2006 and that resulted in the death or serious injury of at least one pedestrian.
Hey peoples…In the war against who’s worse – drivers or cyclist, I have to say the drivers take the prize. This afternoon a car drove *into* the Rite Aid on 5th Ave and 10th Street. And I do mean *in to* the store. NYPD Emergency Services Truck had to pull it out. Damned car busted through stones, window, the works. Amazing site.
btw snappy, the guy helping the woman up is a useless unionized overpaid over-pensioned city worker, whose task is to collect quarters from the meters (you can see the cart in the background). What was he thinking, he should be doing his job! Thank goodness he will soon be replaced by those automated parking kiosks.
it’s quite amazing how many people in this city walk around with $1,000+ cameras around their neck like they’re a fashion accessory (just an observation)
“i like to get farked in the butt by peacocks”
Well, at least your farking something. Or, better said, getting farked by something.
What a shot, Denton! Unfortunately I had neither my camera nor my phone with me this afternoon to grab photos. Dangit!
of course snappy… the other day on 5th Ave I saw a woman pull a u-turn right in front of an oncoming motorcyclist, knocking her down, but fortunately she was not seriously injured.
And of course I took a pic 🙂
http://www.pbase.com/dentontay/image/127315075
ROFL! Driver musta been smokin’ crack…front end of the car had zero damage, thus nothing pushed him/her into the store. I’m not even sure how the driver managed that. He/She had to have hit the gas REALLY hard to back into the store that far and that hard.
Deadliest for City’s Walkers: Male Drivers, Left Turns
By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM
Want to take a safe stroll around New York City? Avoid crossing at intersections. Pay special heed to cars making left turns. Do not go anywhere between 3 p.m. and 9 p.m., stick to the side streets and skip Manhattan entirely.
It has never been easy to safely navigate the streets of New York, where automobiles zip inches away from smartphone-toting pedestrians and the footrace across an intersection has been compared to a game of human Frogger.
But a report released Monday by the city’s transportation planners offers unique insight into the precarious life on the city’s streets — pinpointing where, when and why pedestrian accidents have most often occurred — while undercutting some of the century-old assumptions about transportation in the country’s biggest city.
Taxis, it turns out, were no careering menace: cabs accounted for far fewer pedestrian accidents in Manhattan than privately owned vehicles. Jaywalkers, surely the city’s most numerous scofflaws, were involved in fewer collisions than their law-abiding counterparts who waited for the “walk†sign — although accidents involving jaywalkers are more likely to result in death.
And one discovery could permanently upend one of the uglier stereotypes of the motoring world: in 80 percent of city accidents that resulted in a pedestrian’s death or serious injury, a male driver was behind the wheel. (Fifty-seven percent of New York City vehicles are registered to men.)
The study, which the city’s Transportation Department described as the most ambitious of its kind by an American city, examined more than 7,000 crashes that occurred in New York City between 2002 and 2006 and that resulted in the death or serious injury of at least one pedestrian.
remainder of article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/17/nyregion/17walk.html
report:
http://documents.nytimes.com/pedestrian-study
Snappy – the driver was undoubtedly swerving to avoid someone on a bicycle who was running a red light while talking on a cell phone.
Hey peoples…In the war against who’s worse – drivers or cyclist, I have to say the drivers take the prize. This afternoon a car drove *into* the Rite Aid on 5th Ave and 10th Street. And I do mean *in to* the store. NYPD Emergency Services Truck had to pull it out. Damned car busted through stones, window, the works. Amazing site.