On Brooklyn’s Ocean Parkway, two spring car crashes, about a quarter-century apart, have exacted a death toll of five pedestrians.
Nearly 24 years ago, 15-year-old Inna Shatman and her sister, 10-year-old Svetlana, were waiting to cross when a speeding driverkilled the girls and severely injured their mother.
Last month on the same road, 34-year-old Natasha Saada and three of her children were in the crosswalk when a driver crashed into another car and then into the family, killing Saada and her daughters, 8-year-old Diana and 5-year-old Deborah, and critically injuring her 4-year-old son.
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Nicole Gelinas is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and contributing editor at City Journal. Follow her on Twitter here. Nicole is the author of Movement: New York’s Long War to Take Back Its Streets from the Car, available now.
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