The tragedy points to the limits of Vision Zero, a plan to reduce pedestrian fatalities and one of the mayor’s signature initiatives. Mr. Wallack went to the hospital where she had been taken to find that she was dead. No drug or alcohol test was immediately performed, Mr. Wallack said. He was still permitted to keep his car, the car he was driving when Martha Atwater was killed. “There were so many opportunities,” Mr. Wallack said, “to stop what happened, along the way.”

Source: New York Times March 09, 2018 10:52 UTC