The family of Darly Zacharias is still trying to process the unthinkable as they were joined by advocates to demand safer streets.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
Delivery workers and advocates rallied in Harlem on Friday, demanding safer streets, pointing to legislation like the Super Speeder bill, which would require speed-limiting devices for repeat reckless drivers
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According to police, the driver, 49-year-old Kevin Crosby, now faces manslaughter and DWI charges
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Crosby was arraigned and is being held without bail, officials said<\/p>\n
\u201cA huge, massive tragedy for us, the family. He was a young man full of life, with many dreams, and he was doing well,\u201d Maricela Zacharias, aunt of Darly Zacharias, said.<\/p>\n
According to police, Zacharias was riding an e-bike eastbound on 125th Street when an SUV speeding in the bus lane slammed into him and another rider last week.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy brother was incredibly kind. He was a hard worker his entire life. He always went back to work, never stopped working,\u201d his sister Carolina Zacharias said.<\/p>\n
In a matter of seconds, the driver hit multiple vehicles, including a parked NYPD car, before coming to a stop.<\/p>\n
Zacharias leaves behind a young son.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe robbed the 10-year-old boy [of] the chance to grow up with his father,\u201d Maricela said.<\/p>\n
Delivery workers and advocates rallied in Harlem on Friday, demanding safer streets, pointing to legislation like the Super Speeder bill, which would require speed-limiting devices for repeat reckless drivers.<\/p>\n
\u201cCan ask the mayor to immediately to create a Sammy Law, slow down and install daylighting here to protect us all from reckless and speeding drivers,\u201d Kate Brockwehl, the co-chair of Families for Safe Streets New York, said.<\/p>\n
According to police, the driver, 49-year-old Kevin Crosby, now faces manslaughter and DWI charges.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe doesn\u2019t realize the damage he caused,\u201d Maricela said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just want him to never, ever get out of prison. That\u2019s all I\u2019m asking for, nothing more,\u201d Carolina said.<\/p>\n
Crosby was arraigned and is being held without bail, according to officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The family of Darly Zacharias is still trying to process the unthinkable as they were joined by advocates…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[387,25,388,75,84,83,9,24,12,63,308,27],"class_list":["post-177880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-app-public-safety","tag-app-top-stories","tag-louis-finley","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-public-safety","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}