A handful of New Yorkers and elected officials are pressuring the state to pass legislation that would put “speed limiters” on cars belonging to drivers who have been repeatedly stopped for speeding.
The bill — also known as the “Stop Super Speeders” legislation — has already spent years languishing in Albany without the support needed to pass. The standstill around the legislation persists even as data indicated New Yorkers were more likely to die in traffic crashes than in shootings last year — the second year in a row that auto deaths have outpaced gun deaths in the city.
The renewed pressure on passing the “Stop Super Speeders” bill comes days after a driver with a suspended license fatally struck a mother and her two daughters while the family was crossing a street in Brooklyn. A fourth victim — the woman’s son — is in critical condition in the hospital…