Mayor Bill de Blasio stands with Vision Zero construction workers at Queens Boulevard. | Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office NYC fleet safety director dies of coronavirus

A city employee and Navy veteran who helped lead the Vision Zero push to cut traffic deaths has died of the coronavirus, officials announced Wednesday.

Lenin Fierro, the director of fleet safety and Vision Zero initiatives for the Department of Citywide Administrative Services, was the first DCAS employee to succumb to the disease.


The Queens man oversaw safety initiatives for New York’s fleet of more than 30,000 city-owned vehicles.

“Lenin was a loving husband and father to his wife Brenda and his two daughters. A proud immigrant from Ecuador, Lenin served his adoptive country in the U.S. Navy for ten years,” the agency said in a statement.

“Lenin was integral in implementing components of Mayor de Blasio’s Vision Zero initiative, including training over 60,000 city employees on safe driving and building the city’s first vehicle crash analytics system.”

The virus has hit hard among New York’s civil servants, with NYPD and FDNY members and transit workers dying of the disease.

Fierro had worked for DCAS for six years and teamed up with city schools to offer paid internships and driver training for automotive high school students.

“DCAS joins all New Yorkers in extending its deepest condolences to the family, friends, and colleagues of Lenin Fierro,” the DCAS statement said.