Cars racing and speeding late at night has become very common on Third Avenue in Sunset Park.
And the neighbors comment on the matter: “This is happening a lot. People drive around with their fixed cars and they want to be burning – as they say – and starting competition. You can hear it every day, especially on weekends.”
This avenue is one of several that the state government has designated as the scenarios where various New Yorkers like to exceed the speed limits, for which they announced that from July 31 to August 8 they will deploy state and local patrols to do drivers to slow down on various vehicular arteries.
An initiative that pleases Mario Tapia, a neighbor who goes out of his business and knows that the roads in this neighborhood have become dangerous places: “There are people who do not respect, drive with excess speed and it is good that they put more police so that watch “.
And it is that in 2020 there was a 36% increase in fatal vehicle accidents, with 314, which caused the death of 365 pedestrians, cyclists and passengers. That is why the government hopes that with a greater police presence, drivers will respect speed limits.
And it is that last year in the week of awareness different traffic agents distributed 21,000 fines for drivers who were over the speed limit and more than 30,000 for other traffic offenses
Yorseli Ramos walks with her children, she tries to be careful because several schools and parks in the area border the dangerous Third Avenue: “They do not cross the street alone, we always have to go with them for the same reason, because there are cars that they do not respect. the highs and sometimes they come to pass “.
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