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COURIER L 12 IFE, MARCH 6-12, 2020
State Senator Andrew Gounardes was joined by PS 185 students and the family of Jose
Contla to announce a package of street safety legislation on Friday. Photo by Jessica Parks
DRIVING CHANGE
Gounardes introduces suite of street safety bills
BY JESSICA PARKS
Southern Brooklyn State Senator
Andrew Gounardes proposed a package
of street safety legislation on Friday,
capping off a week marred by the
deaths of six pedestrians across the
city.
“We are here after yet another
tragic week in what seems a nonstop
series of tragic weeks for pedestrians,
cyclists and drivers in our city, and
especially here in southern Brooklyn,”
he said.
One proposal would establish a
safety rating for vehicles, based on
how likely the car would be to harm
pedestrians and cyclists in the event
of an accident — which could potentially
affect the cost of car insurance
policies.
If enacted into law, that proposal
would be the fi rst of its kind in the
United States.
“We made signifi cant gains in
making cars safe for people inside,
for passengers inside the cars, but we
have not done a similar effort to make
cars safer for how they impact and affect
people when they are involved in
collisions and crashes,” Gounardes
said.
Another plan would lighten the
burden of proof for district attorneys
looking to charge careless drivers by
eliminating the need to prove that a
motor vehicle operator was aware of
the harm they could cause by driving
recklessly.
“It’s time to say goodbye to the days
when drivers, no matter how reckless
and careless, could injure and kill our
neighbors with impunity,” said the
freshman legislator.
The third of Gounardes’ trio of policy
proposals would make any intersection
to be a crosswalk, whether it’s
marked or not — forcing motorists to
yield to crossing pedestrians at every
junction in the city.
The senator also called on the
state’s legislature to pass a series of
other proposals — including mandating
that pedestrian and cycling safety
education be taught in pre-licensing
courses, and ordering written exams
when renewing an expired driver’s license.
The street safety push comes after
a six total pedestrians were fatally
struck by cars in New York City this
week — including 10-year-old girl Patience
Albert and 7-year-old Payson
Lott, who were both killed in East
New York.
That week-long carnage comes
amid a larger spike in traffi c fatalities
around the Five Boroughs, where
a staggering 219 people died last year
in motor vehicle crashes.
“Clearly something is not working,
it is not enough,” said Gounardes. “We
can pass all the laws in the world… we
have to get people to change their behavior,
to change their understanding
about what it takes to drive safe
on our streets.”
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