Local Pol Novakhov Defends Reckless Driving at Funeral of Mother and Two Kids Killed by Speeder

Sometimes leaders need to follow.

As members of Borough Park’s Orthodox Jewish community on Sunday grieved a mother and two young children killed by a recidivist speeder, the neighborhood’s Assembly member refused to support a legislative push to prevent such horrors, arguing that there are “too many” speed cameras and that it’s completely normal to race around the kid-filled neighborhood at 11 miles per hour over the speed limit.

Residents who attended the funeral of Natasha Saada and her daughters, Diana and Deborah, said they support a state bill that would require the cars of repeat speeders to be fitted with a device that prevents the car from exceeding the speed limit by more than five miles per hour…

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