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Every crash is part of a pattern. Here’s the human cost—the steady accumulation of loss, grief, and injustice. A weekly reminder of what happens when we choose convenience over lives, speed over safety.

2025 Crash Count

Crashes: 21,659

Injuries: 12,467

Serious: 157

Deaths: 64

Data as of: Apr 12, 2025

Week of Mar 30

Steel Rolls On. We Bury the Names.

A man dies alone on 9th Avenue before dawn. A child’s knee crushed in Brooklyn. Two kids run down in Queens. Three dead, 722 hurt in one week. The city keeps driving. Names vanish. Only the street remembers.

Steel Rolls On. We Bury the Names.

Week of Mar 23

Three Kids. One Mom. One Street. All Gone.

Ocean Parkway. One green light. One stroller. Three children. One mother. An Audi flew through them like they weren’t real. Now Philip is four, motherless, kidney gone. He lives. His sisters do not. The street didn’t stop. Neither did the city.

Three Kids. One Mom. One Street. All Gone.

Week of Mar 16

The Cars Are Killing Us. The City’s Still Blaming Bikes.

A toddler’s leg crushed. An elder left bleeding. A man broken in a crosswalk. All struck by cars. No headlines. No fury. Just silence. The city blamed a bike—and looked away from the steel that does the killing.

The Cars Are Killing Us. The City’s Still Blaming Bikes.