An unidentified female pedestrian was rushed to Sound Shore Medical Center after she was thrown several feet in the air as a result of a collision involving a taxi on Huguenot Street at the Division Street intersection. The taxi, a Ford Crown Victoria owned by United Taxi, was later impounded by New Rochelle police.
The woman was walking on the street near 311 Huguenot shortly before 10 am. Witnesses told police the woman was thrown several feet in the air. Police called for an ambulance, requesting the ambulance be expedited due to the serious nature of the injuries. Street in the area were closed for about 45 minutes while police completed their investigation. Huguenot Street was closed between Memorial Highway and Division Street and Division Street between Railroad Avenue and Huguenot Street.
Taxis in New Rochelle are required to undergo extensive mechanical testing every December.
UPDATE: New Rochelle Police tell Talk of the Sound there were two pedestrians involved, a man and a woman. Bother were taken to Sound Shore Medical Center, treated and released.
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ok boys and girls
Well i can tell you for fact that the wind on this block is crazy just ask the people who live and work there.Sutton flower has replaced his awnings several times. But never before the Avalon being built wonder why. The Indian place had to replace there’s to. The day in question was windy i went out to take pictures of this accident {Bob never used them}and my hands were frozen by the wind and my hat blew off my head twice so there.
Hand held models cost less on ebay
Hand held Anemometers cost less on eBay and are easily carried in a pocket or backpack. I may get one myself. Walking to and from the train station, I have also experienced very strong winds between the Avalon and the parking garage.
A good feature to look for is the ‘Data Hold’ function to record the speeds on the device. Many of the lower cost hand held Anemometers do not have this feature.
Great idea to record and report on the wind speeds for TOTS.
Was the Wind a Factor???
Pedestrian safely is a major concern in our downtown and the police investigation should be quite thorough. One aspect of the area that should also be factored into the investigation is the wind caused by the high rise buildings. Perhaps the City of New Rochelle which has never built in requirements for wind mitigation in their building codes should now look at what is needed to keep pedestrians in the downtown area safe.
go to Manhattan one day
I’ve have yet to see any body flying in to the street by wind in New Rochelle, but i cant see every thing
Maybe the City should issue a “aerodynamic shape clothing warning” when the wind get to high around high rise buildings.
You really need to go to Manhattan one day when it’s windy
it IS abnormally windy on that corner
Above,
You really need to do more than spout. It seems a regular theme of your comments on this site that utter crap flows from your mind through your finger tips to your keyboard to this site. Do you ever once think to actually know something about what you are writing before writing?
I was there and no one said anything about the wind being a factor but anyone who doubts that there is a significant issue with the wind at that location has never been there on a day like today. It was, in fact, VERY VERY windy on that corner this morning at about 10 am.
Not convinced, look at the front door of the Sutton Florist shop warning about the wind.
Look at the “One Way” sign on the corner, it is bent in a direction consistant with the wind coming down Huguenot from the water.
I lived in Chicago near the lake at Diversey and Commonwealth. It was common to see people unable to cross the street due to the wind coming off Lake Michigan and funneling between the two buildings on either side of Commonwealth. One day I watched from my 28th floor apartment as two elderly women were knocked flat and could not get up due to the wind (I called the doorman who ran out to help them).
Whether anything can be done, I cannot say but it is an undeniable fact that the corner of Division and Huguenot is a conduit for winds coming off the sound and up Huguenot.
That there are also high winds generated by other buildings in other cities does not in any way negate the point that if the City is going to build 6 more Avalon towers in the downtown they ought to give some consideration as to the wind tunnel effect created by the buildings. Surely the technology exists to perform computer modeling.
Again, if you doubt the effect go stand on the corner of Huguenot and Division. On days with NO wind there will be a strong breeze; on days with high winds there will gusts of near hurricane force — a likely cause of the bent street signs at that corner. Do a little homework and come back when you have just the slightest shred of an informed opinion about anything.
Now, does this mean that all the buildings should be torn down? No.
However, will all the studies that are done before a project can be approved what is so wrong about including in the environmental impact studies some consideration to the effect on high-rise buildings of the wind patterns in the downtown. After all, the entire point of the “plan” for downtown is to make it a haven for pedestrians. How much of a haven will it be when children and the elderly have to stay off the streets due to high winds being channelled through the downtown.
I never said “wind being a factor”
Mr cox wrote “I was there and no one said anything about the wind being a factor”
I never said “wind being a factor” either, I was be sarcastic to Kara comment, and i do know how windy it get there but come on, it was windy but do you really think that lady was push by the wind it to the street on that day
please Note that before the Avalons were built the windiest block was were the K building is, I never hear of any one getting blown in to the street, it could happen but never seen it in New Rochelle
Yes, wind can knock people down
As I indicated, I do not know why this particular incident occurred.
Of course people can be knocked down by the wind or pushed around by high winds. This is so obviously the case that your questioning this is beyond absurd. As I wrote above, I have personally witnessed two elderly women being knocked down by winds funneled between two high rise buildings.
If the wind is gusting over 50 mph, you have an elderly person crossing, especially on streets that still have ice and snow, I would consider it not only possible but likely that this person would be knocked down in those conditions.
Let’s be clear — there are two issues: (1) why did the taxi driver hit the two people?; (2) has the construction in downtown changed wind patterns causing a concentration of wind funneling through certain areas of the city.
My response here was just to the second point. My belief is that the corner of Huguenot and Division has become a point at which the wind gathers tremendous force.
I am interested to seeing that those people who are concerned about the wind do something productive such as setting up an anonometer to measure the wind each day at different times. That data can then be matched against other data for the area. At that point some meaningful discussion can occur but so long as people are going to, literally, complain about the weather they are wasting their time and everyone else’s.
Get the facts first then talk.
Seriously I do know it could
http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KLGA/2011/1/16/DailyHistory.html?req_city=NA&req_state=NA&req_statename=NA
Seriously I do know it could happen, And I do know that it was windy that day, not overly wind but windy.
Was the wind a factor? I believe not, I’m more to believe that the early morning sun or the way most crazy taxi cab drivers drive or just an accident.
Now should police take wind reading at the seine of an accident? maybe they should
Should the city now put up “Beware this is a known windy section”. maybe they should
Who can you sue if a wind gust throws you in a street?
I was being sarcastic in my first post, and in Manhattan or Chicago there are no wind warning signs for people walking! not that I’ve ever
thin line
There is a thin line between sarcasm and being a twit. You crossed that line long ago and are firmly in the twit category.
You continue to adopt a mocking tone about something that is really quite a simple issue. Wind tunnel effects are a known environmental impact of new construction of high rise buildings. This is hardly a new idea.
What has been proposed by a number of residents over the past few years is that wind tunnel effects be considered when undertaking environmental impact studies. Those suggestions have been ignored with the result that we now have a significant “wind tunnel” running down Huguenot between Avalon One and Two which reaches it highest confluence near the intersection of Huguenot and Division.
This effect is, I believe, why the street sign on that corner is bent over, why the awning at Sutton Florist, part of the BID Facade Program, was destroyed, why there is a sign on the door of Sutton Florist warning customers about the wind, why it is often very difficult to open the door at AOC Wines.
No one is talking about people suing the City or the City putting up warning signs…except you. That’s telling, right.
Rather than address the point you make things up and then debate them…with yourself. In other words, you are engaged in straw man arguments which is your views are so derisively dismissed on this site.
Just once try to write something where you actually have some facts upon which you construct an argument or line of reasoning.
Meanwhile, this is more about City officials who continue to deny that there is any issue at all because they do not want to do anything to annoy developers like complain that there buildings are having any sort of negative impact.
Having experienced it myself on many occasions, I am absolutely certain there IS an issue. Really, there is no doubt.
At the same time, we have people who have been complaining about this issue for a long time in the most incredibly wasteful and ineffective way. Rather than spend $50 to buy a device to take wind measurements, record wind speeds several times a day for a few weeks, then publish the result here, these are people who prefer to literally and figuratively shout out the waves. So long as they are just complaining no one else is going to listen. When they actually DO SOMETHING like document their point by collecting scientific data they will win the argument. I find both sides of this discussion wasteful because the one talks out of their arse and the other refuses to make even the slightest effort to prove their argument. Rather than takes 3 weeks to document wind speeds they would rather spend six years being ignored.
BTW, in cities like Chicago where I lived (twice) it is not uncommon to see ropes set up on certain corners or infront of certain buildings so people can pull themselves through a particularly windy sidewalk or area in front of a building. In other cities, there are tunnels and bridges to keep people out of the wind in downtown/high-rise areas. I lived in the midwest for six years and am well familiar with the issue, especially in cities around the Great Lakes.
Please proofread before posting
It’s often difficult to read posts that consist of broken sentences and thought fragments. Your point will be easier to get across if you focus as you type instead of mindlessly ranting and hitting save without a care. It will be much more efficient for the readers of this site, as I have to read your sentences multiple times to understand what was initially intended. You could very well have some intelligent posts, it’s a shame they often come across as careless complaining.
K Building Wind Tunnel
Between the K Building and the Bank of America building you can see the trees leaning from the years of wind abuse.
About two years ago there was a man waiting on the sidewalk for a ride and the wind tumbled him onto the curb pushing him into trafic in front of a truck that has just finished delivering spring water to the K building. The man was killed.
This was in our local paper and a lady went to Citizens to be Heard to ask for the wind issue on this corner to be addressed and studied.
When she finished voicing her concerns the mayor simply said, “Thank you very much. Next speaker”.
Go buy a Pole Mount Anemometer
Tara,
Instead of complaining about the wind go do something constructive.
Buy a Pole Mount Anemometer and start reporting the wind speeds at that corner.
http://amzn.to/fmoN3S
Unless you are prepared to do some actual work to prove your point your complaints are so much hot air…pardon the pun.
thank you
thank you eye on new roc for telling bob about this story. remember people most phones have a camera on them a quick photo goes a long way to a story