Elliot Mintzer, 67, was winning a battle with cancer. Jerrison Garcia, 25, was “a free spirit,” a contrast with his job as a security guard. Crystal Gravely, 20, was an avid poker player who walked her friends home when it got late. William Faison, 53, quit a job as a parole officer to work with disabled adults. Baker Felipe Avila, 29, never took a sick day.

Angela Hurtado, 67, survived the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center. Musician Dheyshawn Artope, 36, planned to give his sister the biggest baby shower ever. Construction worker Leroy Samuel, 22, dreamed of opening his own business. Sau Ying Lee, a 91-year old grandmother who fled from Mao Zedong's China, working three jobs in Hong Kong to afford airplane tickets to New York, read the newspaper every day, part of her quest to be a better public citizen. Twelve-year-old Joie Sellers was an aspiring ballet dancer.

There have been 233 people killed in traffic crashes in New York City this year. They are native New Yorkers and new arrivals, seniors and children. They are from every borough, although Queens and Brooklyn see more crashes than the rest of the city. More than half of those killed are pedestrians. More than twice as many cyclists have been killed this year than last year.

You can read full profiles of Elliot Mintzer, Jerrison Garcia, Crystal Gravely, William Faison, Felipe Avila, Angela Hurtado, Dheyshawn Artope, Leroy Samuel, Sau Ying Lee, and Joie Sellers here. They'll live in our Mean Streets tracker, along with profiles of other people killed in traffic crashes in New York this year.

These people, and the others we profiled in July and October, are just some of the traffic deaths this year. We want to tell more of those stories.

If you know someone who has been killed in a traffic crash in 2014, if you were a family member or a friend, a teacher or a rabbi, or you just knew someone from the corner store, we'd like to hear from you about who they were – their hobbies and hopes, dreams and goals. Call and leave a personal memory at (347) 352-5686, or email transponation@gmail.com.