Yesterday I reported about the death of the fine journalist Bob Simon , with a note at the end that a diverse driver was responsible for the car crash that killed him.

Now we learn that the taxi driver is an Afghan immigrant, Abdul Reshad Fedahi, who lives in a homeless shelter and has a long list of license suspensions. And one of his arms doesn’t work.

How does a man like that get a job where he is responsible for the safety of the public? Was Fedahi given a pass because he is a foreigner?

On one hand, Mayor De Blasio’s New York City is the perfect liberal nanny zone of behavioral control, where he has banned styrofoam and is working to limit sugared soft drinks.

Meanwhile, the mayor has reduced genuine strategies to protect public safety, particularly by undermining police counter-terrorism to appeal to his Muslim constituents.

The city has been even worse in traffic safety. In 2013, young British tourist Sian Green lost her leg when a Muslim cabbie with anger-management issues struck her on the sidewalk near Rockefeller Center.

The driver, Bangladeshi Mohammed Faysal Himon, was trying to run down a bike messenger who irritated him and wouldn’t let a crowded sidewalk get in his way.

Yet a few months later, Himon was driving a cab once again, because the city refused to prosecute or even bar him from taxi work.

As a reminder of who has been lost, here is one more Bob Simon report worth a look, his 2011 visit to the Orthodox Christian community of monks on Mt. Athos in Greece.

The New York Post can be effective at expressing the popular rage, as it does in this case. The Simon death increasingly looks preventable, had the city done proper safety regulation of cab drivers.