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Ive wondered about this. Beforethe law changed in 2003 and in most cases made abutting property owners, rather than the Cityof New York,responsible to those injured on sidewalks, Iwouldexplain to clients whohad fallen on a public sidewalk in the City that the City would not be liable (assuming it did not create the condition) unless it had received prior written notice of the defect,clients would ask Who would do that? Clients were happy to hear the answer: The Big Apple Sidewalk and Pothole Protection Corp. which prepared and filed maps showing the locations of sidewalk defects. But when the law changed, Big Apple stopped filing the maps. Current accidents where liability against th

With the theme "Cross In View, It's the Right Thing to Do!", this years National School Bus Safety Week is October 18 22. Every weekday in the school year school transportation systems in the United States operate approximately 440,000 yellow school buses to provide safe transportation for more than 24 million school-aged children.Each year more than 800 students are killed going to and from school. It is safer to ride the bus than not. For bus riders, there were 5 passenger fatalities and 15 pedestrian fatalities at school bus stops.For students not riding buses there were 448 fatalities in passenger vehicles with a teenage driver, 169 fatalities in passenger vehicles with an adult driver, 131 fatalities to pedestrians and 46 fatalities to bicyclists. The National School Bus Safety Week Resource Guide and Activity Booklet contains some especially useful suggestions: - Students riding a school bus should always:

New York Citys fire trucks collided with other vehicles and with one another nearly 700 times last year. In an attempt to increase safety for firefighters and civilians by reducing the number of accidents caused while responding to non-fire and non-life threatening emergencies the New York City Fire Department is implementing a 3-month Modified Response pilot program in Queens effective October 4, 2010. The new protocol increases the instances where the either none or at most one first-due units will respond at a reduced speed and obey all traffic regulations. All-out emergency responses will still apply for fires and medical calls. It is hoped that the new protocol will reduce the number of fire apparatus responses using lights and sirens to non-fire and non-life threatening emergencies citywide by more than 300,000 annually - a 30 percent reduction since FDNY apparatus respond

One of the big news stories during the summer of 2007 wasMattel's recall of nearlyone million toys made in China because of lead paint. Other recalls followed almost immediately. These numbers pale in comparison to yesterday's recall announced by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) of TEN million Fisher-Price children's products due to dangerous conditions posing choking and other hazards.Fourteen models of the Fishe