Since 2022, traffic cameras have caught one specific pickup truck speeding through school zones and running red lights over 547 times in the borough of Staten Island, with the vehicle receiving 187 camera-issued tickets in 2025 alone — an average of one every other day. Based on the data, this vehicle is piloted by the second-most-reckless driver in New York City. The truck — a 2022 RAM 1500 — weighs at least 4,775 pounds, and the tickets are only automatically given when a vehicle is going 11 miles per hours above the legal limit. Based on Department of Transportation data, a city driver who received more than two moving violations per year is 40 times more likely to cause a crash that results in death or serious injury than a driver who never does; this driver has received between 116 and 180 moving violations in each of the past four years. Since 2022, that is $36,650.02 worth of speeding tickets. Streetsblog, curious as to why nothing has been done about this and why the law or consequences does not appear to apply to this particular car, discovered that the driver of that RAM 1500 is, naturally, an officer in the New York City Police Department.
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