In an effusive display that pedestrians getting hit by cars does matter if the victim’s age is 4, local media has been all over the case of the very young boy struck by a hit-and-run driver while crossing Central with his grandmother (age unknown) west of Rio Grande Blvd. at Clayton on Saturday night. The effusive media… Read More Tentative Case Study: 4-Year-Old Pedestrian Struck Crossing Central at Clayton
The “conventional wisdom” presents the following combination of narrative plot elements in its creation of a typical pedestrian injury/death: It’s dark outside and the victim is wearing dark clothes Victim stumbles drunkenly into the street This stumbling occurs far from a legitimate crosswalk And there are plenty of cases where this combination of narrative elements… Read More Deconstructing the Pedestrian Injury/Death Narrative
A gruesomely consistent 20% of pedestrian deaths are caused by hit-and-run drivers, and the corner of Virginia and Chico was the scene last Friday of Burque’s latest such injury leading to death. What led a couple in a black SUV to deliberately run Richard Sisneros over and drag him 200 feet is presently unclear. APD… Read More Pedestrians and Hit-and-Run: Grim Statistics and “Ghosts”
Only a few words today, as KOB has the story of Richard Barela, who was killed walking along unlit, sidewalk-free Dennis Chavez Blvd. west of Coors Blvd. last Thursday night. While KOB reporter Colton Stone’s piece is almost unique in that it actually touches both upon the life of the victim and the lack of road… Read More Pedestrian Injuries/Deaths: A Faint Glimmer of Human Interest
In the first three months of this year, nineteen pedestrians were hit and killed in New Mexico. This is up from thirteen in the first three months of 2015. The Land of Enchantment has long had one of the highest pedestrian fatality rates in the nation. 2015 showed a decrease, but the new year seems to indicate that… Read More Multi-Part Story of an Epidemic: Pedestrian Injuries/Deaths in New Mexico
Who says Albuquerque’s South Valley never gets “nice things”? After a 2015 in which the project only wobbled, a long-awaited public meeting was held last night at Mountainview Community Center to explain/discuss an even more long-awaited project: the complete reconstruction of the woefully old, inadequate and dangerous I-25/Rio Bravo Interchange. Before a largely appreciative group, Senator Michael… Read More Public Meeting Report: I-25/Rio Bravo Interchange, 4.14.16
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