Speed camera bill will save lives, victim’s mom says
A Brooklyn woman whose son was struck and killed by a speeding driver on a Park Slope street seven years ago predicted that state legislation to increase the number of speed cameras in New York City school zones to 750 will save lives.
“It will make a difference. I know it will,” Amy Cohen told this newspaper.
Cohen’s son, Samuel Eckstein, was just 12 years old when he was killed while crossing the street at Prospect Park West and Third Street and was hit by a car in 2013. The fatal incident took place a month before his bar mitzvah.