Members of the family maintain pictures of family members misplaced to visitors violence throughout a rally at Brooklyn Borough Corridor.
Photograph by Gabriele Holtermann
Two days after a crash claimed the lives of a mom and her two daughters in Gravesend, avenue security advocates and native politicians gathered on the steps of Brooklyn Borough Corridor to demand the passage of the “Stop Super Speeders” invoice. The proposed laws would require the set up of clever pace help (ISA) expertise within the automobiles of reckless drivers.
The invoice would mandate the units be put in within the automobiles of drivers who accumulate 11 or extra factors on their licenses inside 24 months or obtain six or extra camera-issued rushing or pink mild tickets in a yr. The units would stop repeat speeders from touring greater than 5 mph over the pace restrict in designated zones.
Dashing contributes to greater than 10,000 visitors deaths yearly within the U.S. In New York Metropolis, a report from Transportation Options reveals that visitors violence claimed 193 lives within the first 9 months of 2024.
State Sen. Andrew Gounardes addresses the gang at Brooklyn Borough Corridor, calling for stricter measures towards reckless drivers.Photograph by Gabriele Holtermann 
A mom and her two younger daughters have been killed in Gravesend following a chain-reaction collision involving a driver with a suspended license and a historical past of visitors violations.Photograph by Lloyd Mitchell
Road security advocates at Borough Corridor on Monday stated Saturday’s tragedy might have been prevented if the laws had been handed.
The victims — Natasha Saada, 34, and her daughters, Diana, 8, and Deborah, 5 — had simply left Shabbat companies and have been strolling in a crosswalk on Ocean Parkway when the driving force, Miriam Yarimi, 35, struck them. Yarimi, who’s dealing with a number of prices, together with three counts every of second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent murder, was driving with a suspended license. Data present she had accrued 99 visitors violations, together with 21 rushing tickets, up to now two years, in accordance with How’s My Driving NY.
“Stop Super Speeders” is sponsored by two Brooklyn Democrats, state Sen. Andrew Gounardes and Assemblymember Emily Gallagher. The lawmakers launched the invoice final yr and are urging their Albany colleagues to cross it this legislative session.
“There is no mechanism in state, city or local law — anywhere in the state of New York — that allows us to prevent a driver like [Yarimi] from getting behind the wheel of a vehicle,” Gounardes stated, including that 75% of drivers proceed driving with suspended licenses.
In 2022, the European Union handed laws requiring all new automobiles to be geared up with ISA expertise. Gallagher stated Virginia just lately handed comparable laws.
“We’ve tried ticketing, we’ve tried suspended license, we’ve tried fines, we’ve tried jail time. None of that has worked,” Gallagher stated. “This is a common-sense bill. It just passed in Virginia, and we need to pass it in New York next. There is absolutely nothing getting in our way.”
Joann Perahia holds a photograph of her son, Philippe Haussmann, who was killed when a field truck struck his bike.Photograph by Gabriele Holtermann
Advocates current Monday, amongst them the households of visitors violence victims, stated that passing “Stop Super Speeders” would stop extra mindless and violent deaths.
“Bereavement is a lifelong sentence that I would wish on no one,” stated Jane Martin-Lavaud, whose 24-year-old daughter Lenora was killed in 2013 when a driver blew by way of a pink mild and crashed into the car she was touring in. “We need to take every measure possible to impede this treacherous behavior. Our state legislature has an opportunity to do something about it and prevent the next crash with this bill sooner rather than later.”
Mary Beth Kelly, whose husband, Dr. Carl Henry Nacht, was killed by an NYPD tow truck whereas biking in 2006, expressed frustration with legislators who haven’t backed the invoice.
“We have Assembly members who are not willing to get behind this bill, some in the very neighborhoods where people have died this weekend,” stated Kelly, urging native reps to have the political will to “stop the mayhem.”
Jane Martin-Lavaud holds a photograph of her daughter, 24-year-old Leonora, who was killed in a automotive crash in 2013.Photograph by Gabriele Holtermann 
Road security advocates rally at Brooklyn Borough Corridor, demanding the passage of the “Stop Super Speeders” invoice after a deadly crash in Gravesend.Photograph by Gabriele Holtermann
At a funeral for Saada and her daughters on Sunday, Republican Meeting Member Michael Novakhov, whose district contains Gravesend, excused rushing drivers and stated there are “too many” pace cameras within the space, in accordance with Streetsblog NYC.
Different lawmakers at Monday’s rally included Meeting Member Jo Anne Simon (D-Brooklyn); Metropolis Council members Shahana Hanif (D-Brooklyn) and Lincoln Restler (D-Brooklyn); DOT Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez; and candidates for New York Metropolis mayor within the 2025 Democratic main, State Sen. Zellnor Myrie (D-Brooklyn) and Metropolis Comptroller Brad Lander.
Assemblymember Emily Gallagher, Council Member Shahana Hanif, State Sen. Zellnor Myrie, and Comptroller Brad Lander attend a rally advocating for the “Stop Super Speeders” invoice.Photograph by Gabriele Holtermann 
Highway security advocates rally at Brooklyn Borough Corridor, calling for the passage of the “Stop Super Speeders” invoice.Photograph by Gabriele Holtermann
Simon, a co-sponsor of the invoice, described the laws as a “very practical, common-sense bill to address a persistent problem.”
“The speed limiter technology is available to us,” Simon stated. “Let’s use it. It will save lives.”
Myrie vowed to get the invoice handed this legislative session.
“We stand and say, ‘Enough is Enough already,’” he stated. “Lives depend on our actions now, and I will be standing shoulder to shoulder with you to get it done.”
