Personal Injuries related to traffic accidents in New York City slightly decreased during the second trimester of 2015 compared to the same period of 2014 and 2013 but deaths are on the rise

Motor vehicle accidents continue to rise in New York City.  A comparison of data on a trimester basis shows that the number of vehicle accidents during the second trimester of 2015 was the highest of any trimester over the last 3 years.

However, even though the total number of vehicle accidents is increasing, the number of personal injuries has been slowly decreasing over the last 3 years during the first and the second trimester of each year. The number of deaths related to traffic accidents followed the same trend for the first trimester of this year  and was at the lowest of the last 3 years but the situation changed for the April to June trimester during which 67 people died in traffic accidents compared to 59 for the same period of 2014 and 52 for 2013.  For the last 3 years the number of traffic accident deaths has been slowly increasing every year during the second trimester of the year.

31 pedestrians died in traffic accidents in New York during the second trimester of 2015 compared to 29 during the same period of 2014 and 28 during the same period of 2013. During the month of May only, 17 pedestrians were killed by motorists. This is the highest monthly number of pedestrian deaths since December 2013 and since the launch of Mayor de Blasio’s Vision Zero program.

1230 people were injured in bicycle accidents between April and June 2015 in New York City. This number was below 1200 during the two previous years. 4 bicyclists died in accidents during the same period compared to 5 in 2014 and 2013.

The number of motor vehicle passengers who suffered personal injury in a car accident were slightly lower during the first and second trimesters of 2015 than during the first and second trimesters of 2014 and 2013.  Between April and June 2015 the number of passengers killed in a traffic accident during a 3 months period was the highest of the last 3 years with 10 passengers killed.

The number of motorists who were injured or killed in traffic accidents in NYC slightly increased during the second trimester of 2015 compared to the same period of 2014.