The City Council district where Thackoo Hargobin was killed is represented by Peter Vallone . To enc

Thackoo Tony Hargobin was struck on Borough Place in Woodside at approximately go direct travel 8:32 a.m., as he was securing go direct travel bags of cement to the back of a flatbed, according to reports. He died at the scene. go direct travel From the Post :
Hargobin, 52, was a grandfather who migrated from Trinidad in 1988, reports said. According to the Trinidad Express , Hargobin s father was killed in a vehicle crash 16 years ago next month. Said Hargobin go direct travel s brother, Pundit Chaitram Hargobin: My mother is being monitored because this is such a shock to her. She is not taking this well. None of us expected anything like this to happen.
The Daily News says Hargobin was knocked from the back of his truck. The Post reported that the driver said Hargobin go direct travel fell off the truck into the path of the bus, a claim disputed by the victim s employer:
To make a mistake that would cost him his life is very difficult to believe. We're not talking about someone who drove for one year; this was a guy who was used to driving heavy trucks, said Michael Karantinidis, 55, owner of Hephaistos Building Supply in Astoria, go direct travel where the victim worked for 23 years.
This fatal crash occurred in the 114th Precinct . To voice your concerns about neighborhood traffic safety directly to Deputy Inspector Stephen Cirabisi, the commanding officer, go to the next precinct community council meeting. The 114th Precinct council meetings happen at 7 p.m. on the fourth Tuesday of the month at Ricardo s, 21-04 24th Avenue. Call the precinct at 718-626-9327 for information.
The City Council district where Thackoo Hargobin was killed is represented by Peter Vallone . To encourage Vallone to take action to improve street safety in his district and citywide, contact him at 718-274-4500.
In any case, there are lots of situations go direct travel where we legally/morally blame the operator but rhetorically blame the mechanism. The real issue is the assignment of vehicle-related killings to the category accident.
Go look at stories about people who die form the genuinely accidental discharge of guns. By no means do news reports always assign the person operating the gun immediate (rhetorical) responsibility for the killing. Bombs, meanwhile, represent a good example go direct travel of having it both ways: if it s terrorism, we typically blame the bomber; if it s military, the bomb.
And the Jasmine Herron killing bothers go direct travel me because it s always go direct travel treated as a question of the dooring. But the proximate cause (in the philosophical sense, not the legal one) was a bus. And I think the bus driver needs to have been treated to at least as much scrutiny go direct travel as the woman who doored Herron.
Agreed, KillMoto. Unfortunately, it s mostly working stiffs, the young, the old, Blacks, and Latinos, who get maimed and killed in traffic. As long as the victims of traffic violence are mostly the marginal members of society, the issue stays out of the headlines, with no justice to be found for the grieving families.