Source summary: tmp/experiments_runs/reporter-citywide-home/summary.json
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| citywide_homepage | 0.0 | 0/1 (0%) | $0.06 |
| default | 0.0 | 0/1 (0%) | $0.06 |
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| Geo | Variant | Title | Words | Quotes | Links | Unmatched Domains | Auto Pass | Poignancy | Editor Score (1–10) | Cost |
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| citywide-nyc | default | New York City: Two pedestrians and a driver died at 19th Ave and 42nd St. The toll keeps climbing. | 412 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ❌ | ❌ | 0.0 | $0.06 |
| citywide-nyc | citywide_homepage | New York City: Two bodies on 19th Avenue. A city still speeding. | 462 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ❌ | ❌ | 0.0 | $0.06 |
default New York City: Two pedestrians and a driver died at 19th Ave and 42nd St. The toll keeps climbing.Just after 8:30 AM at 19th Ave and 42nd St in Queens, a baby boy and a 70‑year‑old man were struck and killed. The 84‑year‑old driver also died, according to city crash records. Details here for CrashID 4834594. They were three of 1,107 people killed on New York City streets since Jan 1, 2022. Another 194,885 were injured in that span, with 2,547 seriously hurt, per the same NYC Open Data. Wrong way, hard truthOn a Queens highway, a driver went the wrong way and hit car after car. “Joseph Lee terrorized other drivers,” Queens DA Melinda Katz said. “Two motorists were badly hurt and still have not fully recovered.” Read the case. At JFK’s edge in Springfield Gardens, a 52‑year‑old man tried to cross before dawn. “The operator of the vehicle fled the scene,” police said. No arrests. That report is here. The count does not let upThis year through Aug 26: 183 people killed, compared with 195 at this point last year. Crashes fell too, but serious injuries rose to 500 from 479, according to citywide counts from NYC Open Data. Since 2022, SUVs and cars show up most in pedestrian harm. The ledgers list hundreds of pedestrian deaths where a sedan or SUV was the striking vehicle, drawn from the city’s crash, person, and vehicle files in that period on NYC Open Data. Streets built for speed keep breaking peopleThe man at South Conduit never made it across. The morning at 19th Avenue ended with three dead. These are not outliers. They are the file. The policy levers exist. Lower the default speed limit citywide. Fit the worst repeat offenders’ cars with speed limiters. New Yorkers can push those steps now; the specifics and contacts are listed here. What must happen now
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Geo: | citywide_homepage New York City: Two bodies on 19th Avenue. A city still speeding.Just after 8:30 AM at 19th Avenue and 42nd Street, two pedestrians were struck and killed. The 84-year-old driver also died. City records list all three under Collision ID 4834594. South Conduit, a body, and no driverA 52-year-old man crossing near JFK was hit around 2:30 AM. The driver left him in the road and fled. Police said, “The operator of the vehicle fled the scene after hitting the man.” No arrests. Police were still canvassing for video that morning. The Daily News noted that as of Aug 13, 68 pedestrians had been killed this year citywide, according to NYPD stats. The number keeps climbing. Queens South: the count goes upGothamist reported 17 traffic deaths in the Queens South patrol area through Aug 10. Last year at the same point, it was 13. Four more lives, same streets. The crash log repeats the same phrases. “Going straight ahead.” “Making left turn.” “Pedestrian not at intersection.” In Queens, Manhattan, the Bronx. The entries read like a metronome. The database does not forget. Wrong way, five cars, one sentenceQueens prosecutors described a man who drove north in the southbound lanes of the Clearview Expressway, hitting five cars. District Attorney Melinda Katz said he “terrorized other drivers as he purposefully drove the wrong way on a busy Queens highway.” Her words are on the record. In court, he told police why he did it. “I entered the Clearview Expressway in the wrong direction because I wanted to hurt people and I felt ‘liberated’ by what I had done.” He said it. Streets built for speed, bodies built for breakingAt 19th Avenue and 42nd Street, one car turned left. Two people never got back up. That’s in the file. At South Conduit and 155th Street, a man crossed the asphalt in the dark. The driver did not stop. That is in the file too. What breaks this patternLower speeds save lives. Fewer repeat speeders means fewer funerals. New York City now has tools to do both. Use them.
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