Hit-and-Run Deaths Are Skyrocketing, and Pedestrians and Cyclists Bear the Brunt
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Hit-and-run drivers killed more than 2,000 people in the U.S. in 2016, an increase of 60 percent since 2009.
Recent Streetsblog CALIFORNIA posts about Hit-and-Run
Security Footage Shows Moments Before Frederick “Woon” Frazier Hit from Behind; Police Still Seeking Leads
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It's hard to believe such a powerful young man was dead just moments later because someone needed to get to the next red light so much faster than everybody else.
22-year-old Killed in Hit-and-Run at Manchester/Normandie; Driver Plows Through Mourners Corking Intersection to Protest Death
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The images were a sobering reminder of how terrifyingly fragile the human body is when confronted by a multi-ton vehicle traveling at just about any speed.
New Traffic Signal Going Up Where Jorge Alvarez Was Killed in Hit-and-Run
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Central Avenue has long been known as one of the more pedestrian- and bike-unfriendly streets in the city. It is a fast-moving thoroughfare (especially at night) whose traffic patterns are made more complicated by the number of heavy trucks that trundle down it around the time that school lets out.
New CA Law Requires Temporary Plates for Newly Purchased Cars
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Via Ted Rogers at Biking in L.A. comes news that the State of California will be joining dozens of other states in requiring all new cars to have temporary 90-day license plates. The goal of the law, A.B. 516, is to make it easier to identify drivers breaking the law, be they toll-lane scofflaws or […]
Hit-and-Run Claims Life of Beloved Nun. We Must Do Better, Los Angeles.
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On Sunday, Raquel Diaz, a sister with the Los Angeles Archdiocese, succumbed to her injuries. She was seventy years old. The beloved Boyle Heights nun was crossing Evergreen Avenue at Winter Street at 5:20 p.m. on December 13 when she was run down by a driver in a white, four-door Nissan or Toyota. The loss […]