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PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Darnell Sealy-McCrorey, Member of Families for Safe Streets
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3 min
Darnell Sealy-McCrorey, a member of Families for Safe Streets, testifies in support of a resolution to stop super speeders. He shares the tragic story of losing his 13-year-old daughter, Nayel, in a traffic crash and advocates for a bill requiring speed limiters for repeat offenders.
- Emphasizes the personal impact of traffic fatalities on families
- Advocates for speed limiters as a solution to prevent crashes and save lives
- Mentions his recent release from incarceration, highlighting the added emotional weight of losing his daughter shortly after reuniting
Darnell Sealy-McCrorey
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Hello.
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My name is Darnell Silly McCrory, and I am a member of Families for Safe Streets.
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I'm here to speak in support of chair salons with a resolution to stop super speeders.
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Families for Safe Streets is an organization made up of people like me and all of us have either lost a loved one or ourselves been injured in a traffic crash.
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We know that when our streets and other and our intersections are deadly, we are the ones who are paying the price.
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Bear with me.
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Last year, my 13 year old daughter, Nayel McCrory, was hit and killed by a SUV driver at the intersection of West 100 And Tenth Street and Manhattan Avenue on October 24.
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My beautiful, intelligent daughter, Nayel, had a passion for dancing, learning, and inspired many other friends and teenagers via TikTok with her tough self taught choreographed dance routines.
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She had inspiring dreams of becoming a doctor or a lawyer.
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I never thought her mother and I would be burying our daughter so soon.
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We prayed that she would recover and her intracranial pressure would decrease, but sadly, she was pronounced deceased.
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11/01/2024 I mean, yeah, 2024.
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The day we lost Nayel was the most difficult of our lives.
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Today, we can protect our families from suffering like this.
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There's a bill up in Albany that will require speed limiters and the cause of the worst of the worst repeat offenders.
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Some vehicles are racking up hundreds of speeding tickets a year, and if we don't do something, one of these drivers is going to kill.
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Just like a super speeder killed a mother and her two children in Brooklyn last month, speed limiters are the answer.
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They'll physically slow down super speeders to prevent crashes and save lives.
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We are not saying punish the driver.
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We are saying here's a way to help you stop your reckless behavior because you can take lives.
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We can send a message today to our legislators up in Albany that New York City supports this bill, and thank you for your opportunity to share testimony here today.
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Thank you for the time.
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I'm just a little bit under mental and emotional distress.
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I just wanna also add that I was previously incarcerated, and I just came home February eighth of twenty twenty four.
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I never thought in a million years that I would be burying my daughter the same year that I came home from spending four years behind bars talking to my daughter every day on the phone.
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So I'm just asking to please consider this bill.
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It is serious.
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Her mom cannot be a part of any of this.
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She does not have the strength to do nothing that I'm doing.
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So I'm doing this for my family and I'm doing this for others.
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Thank you.