Our client Hsi-Pei Liao writes an opinion piece for Wired Magazine about the importance of language around fatal crashes like the one that killed his beloved daughter, Allison Hope Liao. IN OCTOBER OF 2013, an SUV driver making a left turn ran over and killed my three-year-old daughter. Allison, walking hand-in-hand with her grandmother in […]
The Wall Street Journal interviewed lawyer Steve Vaccaro about the legal standing of new forms of personal wheeled transportation hitting the streets of New York City, such as self-balancing scooters and electric unicycles. This was the year when the movie “Back to the Future Part II” imagined widespread use of hoverboards. New York, at least, […]
Thrillist speaks with Steve Vaccaro in their in-depth look at the persisting perils of cycling in NYC. In 2014, Bicycling Magazine named New York the country’s best city for biking. It makes a lot of sense. That year, 3,982 bikers were injured on the streets, and 20 were killed — almost double 2013, when a […]
Gothamist interviews Steve Vaccaro about our ongoing push to get justice for our client Dulcie Canton, injured one year ago by a hit-and-run driver driver, who the NYPD still has not arrested. It’s been a year since Dulcie Canton was struck by a hit-and-run driver while cycling in Bushwick, suffering brain bleed and broken bones […]
Staten Island Live interviews Steve Vaccaro about the crash that killed Jenna Daniels and our work to discover what led to this tragedy through litigation. STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Contrary to Police Department findings, a pickup truck’s tinted windows prevented the driver from seeing a teenage jogger who he fatally struck last year on a Prince’s […]