One week after a 4-year-old girl was fatally struck by a driver at a busy San Francisco intersection, activists performed their own roadwork, saying the city is taking too long to make the intersection safer.
"If this city really cared about pedestrian safety, this would have been done the day after the killing," the group went on to say."We don't need studies to do what we know saves lives. We don't need platitudes from city officials . We need concrete action and we need it now."
Shortly after 5 p.m. on August 15, the girl was being pushed in a stroller by her father when the driver struck them in the crosswalk. The girl succumbed to her injuries at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital while her father was treated for life-threatening injuries. Police arrested the driver, identified as 71-year-old Karen Cartagena, on suspicion of failure to yield to pedestrians and vehicular manslaughter., including closing one of the turn lanes and changing the light from a green to a flashing yellow arrow. The mayor had also directed the SFMTA to assess dozens of similar intersections across the city with double turn lanes.
The 4th and King intersection is part of the city's"High Injury Network", which consists of 12% of the city's streets but where 68% of the city's severe and fatal collisions occur. Residents have called the intersection, which is next to a busy Caltrain station and near Oracle Park, difficult and dangerous to cross.
Originally being formed to keep the Great Highway open only to pedestrians and bicyclists, Safe Street Rebel has engaged in other transportation-related activism across the city. Last month KPIX reported on members of the group"We fight for car-free spaces, transit equity, and the end of car dominance," the group says on their website.
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