Comments on: “Freak Accident” That Seems to be Happening Regularly http://www.streetsblog.org/2006/11/14/freak-accident-that-seems-to-be-happening-regularly/ Covering the New York City Streets Renaissance Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:43:57 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Hannah http://www.streetsblog.org/2006/11/14/freak-accident-that-seems-to-be-happening-regularly/comment-page-1/#comment-12045 Hannah Wed, 15 Nov 2006 14:17:00 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2006/11/14/freak-accident-that-seems-to-be-happening-regularly/#comment-12045 These days, you have to be driving an airplane to attract much attention. Witness this prescient quote noted in <a href="http://www.gothamgazette.com/blogs/wonkster/2006/10/15/avoiding-another-plane-crash/" rel="nofollow">Gotham Gazette </a>a couple weeks ago, by Phil Boyer, president of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Assocation, in response to proposals to ban certain air traffic after a plane crashed into an Upper East Side building:  “But the fact remains that the crash was an accident. Restricting access to the Hudson River and East River corridors will not lead to safer skies or reduce the chances of a terrorist attack… Security experts and federal agencies have repeatedly concluded small planes are too slow and too small to be weapons of terrorism.” As for new restrictions reducing the chance of another plane crash, Boyer writes, “<strong>a pedestrian is killed on average every day in New York by a car or truck. Do these same politicians rush before the cameras and call for a ban of all vehicles? Of course not.</strong>” If only they would!  These days, you have to be driving an airplane to attract much attention. Witness this prescient quote noted in Gotham Gazette a couple weeks ago, by Phil Boyer, president of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Assocation, in response to proposals to ban certain air traffic after a plane crashed into an Upper East Side building:  “But the fact remains that the crash was an
accident. Restricting access to the Hudson River and East River
corridors will not lead to safer skies or reduce the chances of a
terrorist attack… Security experts and federal agencies have repeatedly
concluded small planes are too slow and too small to be weapons of
terrorism.”
As for new restrictions reducing the chance of another plane crash,
Boyer writes, “a pedestrian is killed on average every day in New York
by a car or truck. Do these same politicians rush before the cameras
and call for a ban of all vehicles? Of course not.” If only they would! 

]]> By: AD http://www.streetsblog.org/2006/11/14/freak-accident-that-seems-to-be-happening-regularly/comment-page-1/#comment-11930 AD Tue, 14 Nov 2006 23:14:44 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2006/11/14/freak-accident-that-seems-to-be-happening-regularly/#comment-11930 <p>Somewhere near the end of the reports of these crashes, the writer usually includes the obligatory "the driver in the accident was not charged."</p> <p>Not charged ... but are they at least ticketed?</p> Somewhere near the end of the reports of these crashes, the writer usually includes the obligatory "the driver in the accident was not charged."

Not charged ... but are they at least ticketed?

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