During the ten-year period covered in a new report by the City Comptroller’s Office, New York City settled $246.8 million in NYPD-related crash claims — over one-third of the total for all city vehicles
A 2022 crash involving a New York Police Department vehicle unfolded at the intersection of Hoe and Westchester Avenues in Foxhurst when a marked police vehicle responded to a call for a stolen vehicle.One out of every four personal-injury claims settled by New York City is a crash claim, and a police officer is behind the wheel in most of those crashes.
All told, $653.9 million has been spent to settle crash claims involving the city fleet over the last ten years. And while the number of crash claims was lower in 2021 than it was in 2012, the price of payouts was higher, reaching $130.1 million. The size of the payout correlated to vehicle size. In addition to lives saved and injuries prevented, the report found that if the city could reduce crash claims by just 20 percent, it would save $25 million per year — roughly enough to cover the proposed cuts to the city’s libraries. The data is an interesting reframe of the urgency behind the city’s Vision Zero agenda, not just as transportation policy but also a matter of fiscal policy at a moment when core city services are being placed on the chopping block.
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