Transportation
Shouldn't Pedestrians At Least Be Safe From Cars on the Sidewalk?
Even in walking cities like New York, the criminality of drivers who kill pedestrians is far from clear.
On one day last week, within hours of each other, two women standing or walking on New York City sidewalks were killed by drivers.
A few days before Martha Atwater and the unidentified woman in Manhattan died, a man was hit by an SUV driver who jumped the curb in front of Saks Fifth Avenue. A few days after the women were killed, an 83-year-old man’s foot was severed when a driver came onto the sidewalk while parking in Queens and crashed into a storefront. Criminal charges are likely in the Queens case, because the driver fled the scene, but not in any of the others.