Chair Abreu asks why prior assessments weren't made public
Abreu asks why the administration hasn't made prior assessments of illegal devices in fatalities public, and Flynn says they work to put crash data on open data and will look closer.
Was this the first time that the administration had assessed whether the devices involved in these fatalities were illegal or not?
We can speak to that.
Thank you, Chair.
No, I think that any time that there is a fatal crash, the methods by which NYPD and DOT work together on immediate response and investigation and then analysis for
future street safety work shows that we're collecting a lot of information, including photo, video, and other information.
DOT helps partner with NYPD's Chief of Transportation team to review the imagery from these more intense investigations and documentation to help assess the legality or illegality of a given device.
So that can include reference the chart that we provided in our testimony, some of the pieces there of which category it may fall into based on its manufacturer and other information that the team supports with research.
If this is not the first time that the administration had assessed whether the devices involved in these fatalities were illegal or not, why hasn't the administration made those prior assessments available to the public?
Yeah, so we work really hard and closely with PD to put a lot of crash data on open data.
I'd have to go look closer to see if this is on there, this level of detail, but it's something we're happy to take a closer look at.