CRASHCUBE: Collision 4814764
A public crash record, folded into a small monument you assemble yourself.
This Crashcube is a flat-pack CrashCount Factory paper object made from collision 4814764: Union Street at 5 Avenue, Brooklyn, May 21, 2025, 9:30 PM ET. The record says an SUV driver making a left turn failed to yield and hit a 52-year-old woman on a bike. She was thrown and hurt her leg on a wet Brooklyn night.
Inside the sleeve are six illustrated modules, instructions, and a hidden five-part poem. Fold them together and the record becomes a 3-inch cube: image outside, poem inside, evidence held in the hand.
The cube faces are loose ink-and-watercolor crash studies: rain-gray wash, streetlight yellows, blue-black vehicle mass, bicycle-line fragments, and sharp signal red marks that make the left turn feel suspended in the paper.
Part of the solution: A portion of every sale supports safer streets in New York City.
Edition
- Collision ID: 4814764
- Location: Union Street at 5 Avenue, Brooklyn
- Edition / run: 25 numbered copies
Object
- Flat-pack folded-paper cube kit in a 5.5 by 5.5 inch sleeve
- Finished cube is 3 inches tall
- Six illustrated modules, assembly instructions, and a poem inside
- Requires cutting, folding, and tucking the modules together
Product images are factory renders and reviewed mockups of this edition. Finished hand-cut and hand-folded cubes may show small paper variations.
Trace
A print with a past
- Format
- CRASHCUBE
- Source
- NYC public collision record
- Artist review
- Made through Michael James Freedman's drawing system and approved before release.
- Edition
- Produced in a small run, with source record and finished work kept together.