NY Road Safety Advocate Calls for More Proactive Approach to Enforcing the Speed Limit

Soon after a woman and her two children were hit and killed by a motorist who was apparently driving over the speed limit, elected officials are calling for a bill to be passed that would place speed-limiting technology on the vehicles of those who continually break the law.

Ira Slavit, a partner with the Mineola law firm Levine & Slavit PLLC, who is also a road safety advocate and a personal injury attorney, says that, had the state passed the bill earlier this year, this tragedy might not have happened.

On March 29, a woman was walking down a street in Brooklyn with her son and two daughters when another woman — who was allegedly speeding — hit another car, causing her vehicle to flip over. The car hit and killed the mother and her two daughters; her son was hospitalized…

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