On one day last week, within hours of each other, two women standing or walking on New York City sidewalks were killed by drivers.
One of those senseless deaths happened in Manhattan, and one in my Brooklyn neighborhood, where a woman named Martha Atwater stepped out of a bagel store after buying cookies there for her family. A few steps away, she was struck by a sport pickup truck whose driver had mounted the curb and come up onto the sidewalk. When I saw the picture of where the crash had occurred, I had to sit down. I had been in that exact spot about 20 minutes before it happened. Not that there’s anything particularly remarkable in that for anyone but me. I’m just one of hundreds of people who walk that stretch of pavement every day.Read more: Shouldn't Pedestrians At Least Be Safe From Cars on the Sidewalk? - Commute - The Atlantic Cities
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