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Statement from Transportation Alternatives after Traffic Violence Kills Four New Yorkers and Leaves Four Others Critically Injured over Halloween Weekend
Michelle Deme Michelle Deme

Statement from Transportation Alternatives after Traffic Violence Kills Four New Yorkers and Leaves Four Others Critically Injured over Halloween Weekend

Traffic violence has killed 217 New Yorkers this year so far, 12 more than were killed in all of 2018.

This is the 23rd person killed on a bike in 2024, the second killed in the past week, and the fourth killed in the last two weeks. 

So far, 2024 is tied to be the most deadly year in Manhattan in Vision Zero history. Nearly twice as many people have been killed so far in the borough than by this point in the safest year, 2018.

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