Safety upgrades to be implemented after Penticton, B.C. child hit in crosswalk | 24CA News
The City of Penticton, B.C., will probably be including security measures to an intersection after a baby was hit by a automobile whereas crossing final week.
On Monday, June 12, a 14-year-old lady was on the way in which to highschool and was practically midway throughout the crosswalk on the intersection of Duncan Avenue East and Columbia Street, when a automobile driving up Duncan struck the kid and despatched her flying over the hood.
“Terrible. She was able to tell someone waiting, a different driver, our home number and he said your daughter’s been hit at the intersection need to come right away,” mentioned the sufferer’s mother Nicole.
Global News shouldn’t be utilizing Nicole’s final title to guard the identification of her daughter.
“There’s a video from the corner store showing her stop near the crosswalk, look, wait for the bus to pass through, look again and push her scooter through the crosswalk.”
The intersection, Nicole says, has change into more and more harmful, given an inflow of recent houses and improvement additional up the hill.
She went on to say that many households have additionally expressed issues over elevated visitors within the space and rushing. And with Columbia Elementary School close by, many college students use the crosswalk day-after-day.
“It has been a problem for many, many, many, many years,” mentioned Nicole. “It’s so frustrating that it takes a tragedy for anything to be done about a school intersection.”
According to City of Penticton engineer, Jonathan Chu, on the time of the incident, there have been no deliberate modifications nevertheless the town actively screens the realm to see the place further enhancements may be made.
On Friday, the town confirmed it would now be including extra security measures to the intersection.
“Back in 2017 there were some traffic-calming measures done to that intersection as part of the development up at the Ridge and then we got into a monitoring phase,” mentioned Chu.
“We do realize that speed is still an issue, especially along that Lawrence Avenue corridor so we are looking at some traffic-calming measures there as well so that’s all in addition to the new four-way stop that we will be putting in at Columbia and Duncan.”
Meanwhile, Nicole’s daughter suffered a damaged arm, extreme bruising, and accidents to her leg and her left facet.
The driver of the automobile reportedly remained on scene and was cooperating with police on the time.
RCMP consider velocity and intoxication weren’t an element within the accident, and the driving force was issued a ticket for failing to yield to a pedestrian.
“It’s so maddening, that someone like my daughter can do everything right, pause, wait, look, use a crosswalk, and still someone not paying attention, distracted driving, likely unaware, not stopping at a crosswalk can hit a child,” mentioned Nicole.
“Then my daughter gets taken away in an ambulance and she gets to drive away from the scene, unharmed.”
The metropolis expects the protection upgrades to be in place inside the subsequent couple of months.
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