Although, it’s in the city limits, this is the suburbs. Strip malls, unsafe streets, no where to walk to. The product of a city designed by individual land developers largely unchecked by city planners. Each maximizing the use of their own plot to the detriment of the area as a whole.

I grew up in Florida and spent my early adulthood there. Even though I lived on opposite sides of the state I had police in two locations tell me “if a cop didn’t see it, it didn’t happen”. I guess eyewitnesses mean nothing and all I can figure is whoever runs the NYPD police academy also runs the police academies in Florida.

From what I can find, the VA laws covering reckless driving can be found in Title 46.2 (Motor Vehicles) of the Virginia Code. The general rule appears at section 852:

§ 46.2-852. Reckless driving; general rule.

Irrespective of the maximum speeds permitted by law, any person who drives a vehicle on any highway recklessly or at a speed or in a manner so as to endanger the life, limb, or property of any person shall be guilty of reckless driving.

(Code 1950, § 46-208; 1958, c. 541, § 46.1-189; 1983, c. 380; 1989, c. 727.)

Subsequent sections cover various aspects of reckless driving (e.g. failing to give proper signals, driving too fast for highway and traffic conditions, etc.). The Motor Vehicle Code can be accessed at http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?000+cod+TOC46020000008000000000000

The vast world-wide system of transport based on automobiles is so structurally violent, wasteful, and devastating that it demands immediate intervention as a treatable and preventable disease.

This is a broad top-down issue requiring extensive evaluation and action on the tensions between free will and large-scale obsessions with extremely negative outcomes.

Obsessions with extremely positive outcomes is where we should be heading to cause the scale-appropriate positive change.

what’s so bizarre is that cops can arrest anybody for pretty much anything they want, they can search you at any time they want, they can look through your bag upon entering a subway and yet can’t, no *WON’T* arrest some kid driving recklessly on a city street and seriously injuring people because of it and the kid just walks away to do it again tomorrow. then one of their own kills one of us and they do anything they can to avert justice.

the thin blue line my ass. it’s called taxation without representation. who the hell are these people protecting anyway, because it certainly isn’t us?

i want my money back.

No fault, so we all pay. And I don’t see how any 17 year old can afford to drive in NYC. My daughter wants to, but I was told the insurance would go up $1,800 per year, and I told her to let me know when she could afford it. I’m also aware that the first year or two, before you know how to control a vehicle and where to direct your attention, is the most dangerous.

They should have kept the drinking age at 18 and raised the driving age to 21 IMHO.

This needs to stop. We have gone past the threshold of autogenocide. Autogenocide is the extermination of a country’s citizens by its own people or government.

The most bizzare thing here is the lack of wanting to do anything about it. Texting is still legal in my state.

The great thing is I just came back the next day and passed.

And when has anyone, ANYONE, failed a driver’s test?

Ideal scenario: Automatically license everyone to drive a car, and permanently revoke it upon sufficiently clear demonstration of inability to comport one’s self. Do away with driver’s licensing exams, and revoke after causing avoidable & irreparable harm.

It’s analogous to voting, where you can vote once you turn 18 and until you’re convinced of a felony.

I wrote to a few people on the nyc.gov Contacts page, but that’s probably as useless as anything else.