[RP TownTalk] Just witnessed a pedestrian being hit by car on east west highway

[S Collins]

Very sad that you had to see something like that.  Hopefully the woman will be ok.  That's not the only dangerous intersection - I'm a full-time pedestrian and many's the time I've almost been hit at Route 1 and Queensbury Road and other major intersections around town, even though I cross with the light and the "walk" signal and am in a marked crosswalk.  Never fails, I'll be all the way in the crosswalk, if it's dark or inclement weather I carry a lit flashlight, but still, someone will come speeding through a red light, etc., and almost hit me. I saw on the news that in College Park, where there've been fatalities this year on Route 1, they're going to put up a median fence, etc., etc.  However, the plain fact is, until everybody - pedestrians, drivers, joggers, people on bikes, etc. - pays full attention to what's around them and obeys the laws when they're out and about, not much will change.   
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On Thu, 7/17/14, Catarina Correia <chatareena at gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: [RP TownTalk] Just witnessed a pedestrian being hit by car on east	west highway
 To: "TownTalk at riverdale-park.org" <towntalk at riverdale-park.org>, HOPE_in_Hyattsville at yahoogroups.com
 Date: Thursday, July 17, 2014, 6:33 PM
 
 Hello
 In light of past conversation on these lists i
 wanted to report that I just saw a woman hit by a car while
 crossing crosswalk on east west between riggs and new
 hampshire.  i feel partially responsible as I stopped to
 let her walk (was heading East) and woman in second lane
 also stopped as did the car in 4th lane heading west - she
 started crossing and a cab in the third lane who did not see
 her was coming very fast and girl also didnt see him.  dont
 know what to do.  She was talking and ambulances and police
 were on their way. i HATE that intersection. if pedestrians
 arent getting hit, then cars are rear-ending each other.
  what more can we do?????
 
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