Livery cab businesses in NYC have sought to stop the program's implementation via legal means.
The livery cab had a stop sign, but it's not clear if the driver stopped.
Nathan and Raizy Gluber, both 21, were riding in a livery cab in Brooklyn.
The driver of the livery cab, Pedro Nunez Delacruz, was knocked unconscious but was not seriously hurt.
The crash with the BMW reduced the livery cab to a crumpled heap, and Raizy Glauber was thrown from it.
The Glaubers called a livery cab, a hired car arranged via telephone, not hailed off the street like a yellow cab.
Livery cab owners and groups sued, saying it was too broad to qualify as a test program and was unfair to them.
They called a livery cab, a hired car that is arranged via telephone, not hailed off the street like a yellow cab.
The Glaubers called a livery cab, a hired car that is arranged via telephone, not hailed off the street like a yellow cab.
The board contends the livery cab law is unconstitutional because it affects a single municipality without a vote from the City Council endorsing the plan.
Police say Acevedo was going about 60 miles per hour early Sunday when the BMW he was driving crashed into the side of a livery cab carrying Nathan and Raizy Glauber, both 21.
His vehicle should not have been sent to pick up the passengers because an application to use the Toyota as a livery cab had not yet been approved, the city Taxi and Limousine Commission said.
As the Glaubers' family mourned the dead and prepared to raise the couple's newborn, authorities were searching for a man and a woman seen fleeing the BMW that struck the livery cab, a law-enforcement official said.
The decision has ramifications beyond striking down a plan to put street-hail cars in boroughs outside Manhattan's central business district, where people looking for a ride usually must call a livery cab to pick them up or hope that a yellow taxi passes by.
The plan had outraged the yellow-cab industry and drivers, while winning support from livery companies and advocates who said boroughs outside Manhattan and minorities have long been underserved by taxis.
An official with the Taxi and Limousine Commission said the cab driver, Mr. Nunez, had a valid livery license and a clean record, but the Toyota Camry he was driving at the time of the crash had not yet been authorized to be used as a livery taxi.
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