Calls for enhanced pedestrian safety efforts are growing one week after a 7-year-old girl was hit and killed in Avondale. The girls were not in a crosswalk when they were hit near the intersection of Vine and Ehrman streets.Shareese Lattimore was one of two 7-year-olds police say were running across the street Tuesday afternoon and were hit by a teenage boy driving on Vine Street. The Avondale Community Council met virtually Tuesday evening. On the board's agenda was pedestrian safety. Board members said they have been concerned about and discussing the issue for years. One board member has been pushing to have a traffic light installed at Ehrman and Vine for approximately two years.Two board members are now chairing a pedestrian safety effort. Plans are not set in stone, but the board members will consider ideas such as adding lighting, increasing signage and launching educational campaigns.The board members said they have already met with representatives from the city planning office and city manager's office. "It's about keeping our kids safe... It's about saving lives of our kids," said board president Sandra Jones Mitchell. "We need to do all we can within our abilities to get the word out and to save a kid, to save a life."
Calls for enhanced pedestrian safety efforts are growing one week after a 7-year-old girl was hit and killed in Avondale. The girls were not in a crosswalk when they were hit near the intersection of Vine and Ehrman streets.
Shareese Lattimore was one of two 7-year-olds police say were running across the street Tuesday afternoon and were hit by a teenage boy driving on Vine Street.
The Avondale Community Council met virtually Tuesday evening. On the board's agenda was pedestrian safety.
Board members said they have been concerned about and discussing the issue for years. One board member has been pushing to have a traffic light installed at Ehrman and Vine for approximately two years.
Two board members are now chairing a pedestrian safety effort. Plans are not set in stone, but the board members will consider ideas such as adding lighting, increasing signage and launching educational campaigns.
The board members said they have already met with representatives from the city planning office and city manager's office.
"It's about keeping our kids safe... It's about saving lives of our kids," said board president Sandra Jones Mitchell. "We need to do all we can within our abilities to get the word out and to save a kid, to save a life."
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