In January, a 52-year-old woman named Xiaohong Chen was hit and killed on her way home from the grocery store by a driver making a left turn on a corner in Brooklyn. The suspect, a 72-year-old man who stayed at the scene after, was later arrested and charged with failing to yield to a pedestrian. When reporters dug deeper into his driving record, they found he’d collected 27 tickets issued by automated speed cameras since 2018.

It’s a tragic narrative heard often in safe streets advocacy — a deadly crash involving a driver with a long list of violations. But it’s one that’s increasingly not anomalous.