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Presentation and discussion of crash statistics for various vehicle types
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DOT officials present year-to-date crash statistics for various vehicle types, including cars, mopeds, e-bikes, and e-scooters. Council Member Brooks-Powers seeks clarification on trends and comparisons to previous years.
- Year-to-date crashes caused by cars and larger vehicles: 77,965
- Moped-related crashes: 2,991
- E-bike-related crashes: 782
- E-scooter-related crashes: 1,329
- Officials note that crashes and injuries have generally been decreasing over the past several years
- Council member requests more specific trend data and comparisons to previous years
Eric Beaton
1:24:39
Sure.
1:24:40
So we we so so far, year to date, we've had just under, 78,000, 7 779 65, crashes that were caused by cars and larger vehicles like trucks and buses.
1:24:54
We have 2,000
Selvena N. Brooks-Powers
1:24:55
This hearing is not about cars.
1:24:57
I'm asking you about e scooters and mopeds.
Ydanis Rodriguez
1:24:59
We give you the scooter number
Eric Beaton
1:25:01
in 6 in person.
1:25:02
So for mopeds, it's 2,991.
1:25:07
For ebikes, it's 782.
1:25:10
And Can you
Selvena N. Brooks-Powers
1:25:10
say that one again?
1:25:11
I'm sorry.
1:25:11
I'm just writing it.
Eric Beaton
1:25:12
For for ebikes
UNKNOWN
1:25:13
Mhmm.
Eric Beaton
1:25:13
It's 782.
1:25:16
Mhmm.
1:25:16
And for escooters, it's 1329.
1:25:22
These these are what are collected by NYPD.
1:25:25
I think we want to acknowledge that there are incidents that happened that are very real and don't always, you know, if someone doesn't report it to NYPD, we don't know about it.
1:25:34
Mhmm.
1:25:34
But we we do find that these, these help us know where the most incidents are happening so that we can work with NYPD to make sure that we're focusing the enforcement on those corridors where we're seeing
Mary Macukkin
1:25:46
the most incidents.
Selvena N. Brooks-Powers
1:25:47
And so these numbers I put this year or last year?
Eric Beaton
1:25:50
These are this year year to date.
Selvena N. Brooks-Powers
1:25:52
Year to date.
1:25:52
Okay.
1:25:53
Now in the trend, are you seeing increase decrease based on the numbers?
1:25:58
Have they gone up?
1:25:59
Have they
Eric Beaton
1:26:00
So we will get back to you with last year's numbers.
1:26:03
But in in over the past several years, the number of injuries has generally been going down.
1:26:08
But obviously, if you
Selvena N. Brooks-Powers
1:26:09
Not in not injuries going down, but the instances Yeah.
Eric Beaton
1:26:12
The the crashes are going down.
Selvena N. Brooks-Powers
1:26:14
Can someone just, like, look that up?
1:26:15
Because we still have some more time here.
1:26:17
So
Eric Beaton
1:26:18
We'll we'll we'll get you what we can now, and anything else, we'll get you later.
Selvena N. Brooks-Powers
1:26:21
Thank you.
1:26:22
I'm gonna pause because I have a lot more questions.
1:26:24
Council member Holden has round 2 as well as council member Marmarato.
