No Traffic Fatalities on UWS So Far This Year After 8 Killed in 2014
(DNAINFO) Emily Frost | October 22, 2015 — So far in 2015, the northern half of the UWS has had a vast improvement in safety, police said.
After a year in which eight people were killed in car crashes following the city’s launch of Vision Zero, no one has died in vehicle-related incidents so far this year — marking a “banner year” for the initiative, police said.
Of the eight people killed last year in the 24th Precinct — which runs from West 86th to 110th streets between Riverside and Central Park — six were pedestrians, one was a cyclist and one was a driver.
But as of Wednesday evening, no one had died in car crashes during all of 2015 so far.
“It absolutely is a banner year for Vision Zero so far,” 24th Precinct Capt. Marlon Larin told residents at a community council meeting Wednesday.