{"id":1090,"date":"2015-07-19T23:48:04","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T03:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/makequeenssafer.org\/home\/?p=1090"},"modified":"2015-07-19T23:48:04","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T03:48:04","slug":"tracking-progress-june-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/makequeenssafer.org\/home\/2015\/07\/tracking-progress-june-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracking Progress: June 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Tracker-2015-06\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Fatalities<\/strong>. There were four traffic fatalities in Queens in June, including two vehicle occupants, one motorcyclist and one pedestrian. The neighbors we lost included an unidentified 62-year-old man, who died in a single car crash in Jamaica Hills; Louis Benjamin, a 39-year-old who died in a single car crash in Rosedale; Betty Jean DiBiasio, a 21-year-old pedestrian killed by a hit-and-run driver in Astoria, and Izayha Felder, a 19-year-old motorcyclists killed in a crash in St. Albans. \u00a0In the 12 months ending June 2015, there have been 79 overall traffic fatalities in Queens, down 15% from the 93 people killed in 2013, the Vision Zero benchmark year. Citywide, there has been a 16% decline in fatalities.<\/p>\n

Injuries<\/strong>. In the 12 months ending in June 2015, there have been 2,381 pedestrians injured in Queens by motor vehicles, a decline of 15% from the Vision Zero benchmark year, 2013. In the same time, there have been 855 injuries to cyclists, a rise of 4% since 2013. Overall, including motor vehicle occupants, there have been 14,971 people injured in motor vehicle crashes in Queens over the past year, down 4% since 2013. \u00a0Citywide, there has been a 9% reduction in injuries.\u00a0 While pedestrian injuries have continued to fall in Queens, injuries to cyclists have been rising, likely the result of more cyclists on the road.\u00a0\u00a0 Injuries to motorists and passengers has also been rising.<\/p>\n

Enforcement<\/strong>. \u00a0In June, many precincts across Queens significantly stepped up enforcement actions against driving behaviors that put other road users at risk.\u00a0\u00a0 Highlights of Vision Zero enforcement in June included citations for red light running in the 100th, 103rd, 104th, 106th, 108th, 110th, 112th, 114th, and 115th Precincts; speeding in the 105th, 112th, and 113th Precincts; and cell phone use in the 104th Precinct; and failure to yield to pedestrians in the 104th, 105th, 109th, 110th, 111th, 112th, and 114th<\/sup> Precincts.<\/p>\n

The increased enforcement in June appeared to reverse an apparent trend in declining enforcement actions against these behaviors.\u00a0\u00a0 We hope NYPD keeps it up.\u00a0 Enforcement actions against drivers using handheld cell phones continue to decline sharply.<\/p>\n

See our full report here, including results by borough and community board<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fatalities. There were four traffic fatalities in Queens in June, including two vehicle occupants, one motorcyclist and one pedestrian. The neighbors we lost included an unidentified 62-year-old man, who died in a single car crash in Jamaica Hills; Louis Benjamin, a 39-year-old who died in a single car crash in Rosedale; Betty Jean DiBiasio, a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/makequeenssafer.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/makequeenssafer.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/makequeenssafer.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makequeenssafer.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makequeenssafer.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1090"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/makequeenssafer.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1094,"href":"https:\/\/makequeenssafer.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions\/1094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/makequeenssafer.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makequeenssafer.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makequeenssafer.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}