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Inquiry into bicycle fatalities and traffic safety statistics
1:06:37
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Council Member Rita C. Joseph questions NYPD representatives about bicycle fatalities and enforcement strategies. Chief Obe provides current statistics and explains their approach to traffic safety.
- Overall fatalities are down (52 vs 79 in the previous period)
- Pedestrians, especially seniors, are identified as the group most at risk
- NYPD focuses on summonses for violations that contribute most to accidents, such as failure to yield and speeding
- Discussion of fatalities related to traditional bikes vs. motorized two-wheel scooters
Rita C. Joseph
1:06:37
So how do you address increase in bicycle fatalities?
1:06:41
Are there any targeted enforcement or outreach strategies being utilized to, you know, to address these incidents?
1:06:50
And how many bike related incidents you've had this year?
Olufunmilola "Lola" Obe
1:06:53
Okay, so just very quickly with bikes we don't see it.
1:06:57
I talked about overall fatalities fifty two versus seventy nine.
1:07:02
Pedestrians is where we see our biggest problem right now.
Rita C. Joseph
1:07:04
Especially with our older adults, and what are we doing to protect our older Okay,
Olufunmilola "Lola" Obe
1:07:09
so one of the things that we do when we see a spike, I speak I spoke very quickly about the 109 Precinct.
1:07:14
Again, I know it's very short that some of the criticism we get criticism that we get.
Rita C. Joseph
1:07:18
That you show up after the problem?
Olufunmilola "Lola" Obe
1:07:20
Yeah, which is yeah.
1:07:22
Ocean Parkway 2 it is, but you know I don't think it's reactive.
1:07:27
There's a mix of both.
1:07:28
It is proactive because our officers are there along the corridors and we see the work that they do.
1:07:33
And again, we focus not just on all summonses, but we know summonses that actually are the worst contributors to this types of incidents failure to yield, speed is that type of thing.
1:07:44
So, again, total fatalities fifty two versus seventy nine.
1:07:47
What we see that's troubling are the pedestrians, specifically senior pedestrians.
1:07:52
Traditional bike fatalities we have one versus two motorized two wheel scooter.
1:07:56
That's kind of a universe of e bikes, stand up scooter, motorbikes.