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Transportation Alternatives, a traffic safety advocacy group, is launching a new website this week, which aims to provide information and statistics on accidents, fatalities, and injuries in the streets of New York City. The new site -- crashstat.org -- features block-by-block figures on pedestrian and bicycle crashes based on data compiled from 1995 to 2009.
The most dangerous intersection for pedestrians is on 33rd St. and Park Avenue in Murray Hill. This location has taken one person's life and has injured another 163 over the 15-year period. What makes the intersection particularly dangerous is a 3-foot-high barrier in the middle of Park Avenue, meant to stop traffic from crossing.
Cyclists are most threatened at the corner of East Houston St. and Bowery. The second worst intersection is nearby at Houston and First. Respectively, 41 and 37 bicycle crashes were recorded at each location.
New York City's Department of Transportation immediately pushed back. They claim that because of their safety initiatives, safety has in fact increased in these hotspots. Traffic fatalities are at an all-time low, according to the DoT, having dropped by 37% since 1995.
In compiling the data, Transportation Alternatives complained to have had scant cooperation from the NYPD, despite laws forcing them to be more forthright. The information therefore had to be culled from disparate sources.
As a practicing accident and personal injury attorney in New York, I deal with tragic accidents like those crashstat.org memorializes every day. If you would like more information about how medical malpractice and accident cases work in the state of New York, I encourage you to explore my educational website. If you have legal questions, I urge you to pick up the phone and call me at 516-487-8207 or by e-mail at lawmed10@yahoo.com to answer your questions. That's what I do every day. I welcome your call.
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