A new report from Transportation Alternatives has found that the first six months of 2021 have been the deadliest on record for car crashes in the city. Arrests made in these cases are also low, leaving some family members searching for answers.

“His mom told him I gave you my son and you are sending me the coffin of the dead body,” said Arif Hossain, the cousin of Borkot Ullah.

Arif Hossain, standing next to his cousin Foyez Ullah, expressed the pain family members are feeling after his cousin, Ullah’s brother, Borkot Ullah was killed while riding a bicycle in lower Manhattan.

“He wasn’t even planning to work on that day but he came to work at like 8 oclock,” said Hossain.

24-year-old Ullah was delivering food on a bicycle on July 8 when a black Subaru Outback slammed into him at the intersection of East Houston and Attorney Street. The driver didn't stop.

“What are we going to tell his mom? We have no answer. What are we going to tell his family? We have no answer,” Hossain said.

Answers the police have not been able to provide. That driver was last seen heading north on the FDR. Ullah’s death is just one of 137 traffic fatalities in the city so far this year.

“We’re seeing a massive uptick in people who are being injured and killed on the streets and it’s predictable and preventable,” said Danny Harris, Executive Director of Transportation Alternatives. “Mayor de Blasio has the tools at his disposal with Vision Zero.”

Vision zero is Mayor Bill de Blasio’s signature plan to bring traffic fatalities to zero. He blames the surge on the pandemic.

“The pandemic caused people to feel uncomfortable on mass transit, they got into their cars and too many cases of speeding or victims,” de Blasio said.

Hit and runs resulting in critical injury or death are also on the rise. So far, there are nearly twice as many in the first half of this year than in the first half of any of the last four years.

Of the 47 incidents this year, police have only made 11 arrests.

City Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer calls this an epidemic.

“We have to have the enforcement, we have to have more arrests, we have to have prosecution - we have to have people going to jail for killing someone with their car and then we have to have the civil penalties as well,” said Van Bramer.

The NYPD said in part that “It is laser focused on combating dangerous driving behavior, in order to address the spike in gun violence, the NYPD implemented a temporary transfer of police officers from various units, including the Transportation Bureau.”

“They don’t have any kind of information - that’s really, really unacceptable,” said Hossain.

For Hossain, his family's tragedy should be a priority.

“He was the youngest person in our whole family, one of the nicest person in our family, he just started his life, he didn’t even see the world yet,” Hossain said.