Progressive progress: Bill de Blasio sets new rules for others.
Just days after Mayor Bill de Blasio announced an aggressive plan to prevent traffic deaths, CBS 2 cameras caught the driver of a car carrying the mayor violating a number of traffic laws.
As CBS 2′s Marcia Kramer reported Thursday, the mayor’s two-car caravan was seen speeding, blowing through stop signs, and violating other traffic laws. Kramer reported that if the driver of the lead car, which carried the mayor in its passenger seat, had been cited, he would have racked up enough points to get his license suspended.
When the mayor announced his 62-point safe streets initiative, which includes lowering the speed limit to 25 mph, he said, “We want the public to know that we are holding ourselves to this standard.â€
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Firenze Sage, Esq. Â Well here we go again.
[New York Mayor Bill de Blasio’s progressive progress]
Visionary Street Safety Goal: No Fatalities or Serious Injuries on New York City Streets
“In just one night two weeks ago, three New Yorkers were killed while walking on New York City streets. This, tragically, was not unusual. In the past year, 291 of our neighbors were killed in car crashes, and 15,465 pedestrians and cyclists were injured in collisions with motor vehicles.“In New York, one person is killed in a car crash every 30 hours. Every 10 seconds, a New Yorker suffers a traffic related injury, and every two hours a traffic injury results in dismemberment or disfigurement. From 2001 to 2010, more New Yorkers were killed in traffic than were murdered by guns. The consequences for New York families is tragic: being struck by a car is the most common cause of injury-related death among children 1-14 years old, and the second most common cause among those aged 15 and older.
