City hopes for $18.6M from feds
Marks left on an East Avenue sidewalk after an April 7 single car accident. (Contributed by Bradford Craighead)
NORWALK, Conn. No one was hurt when a car ran off East Avenue, right over the sidewalk and into somebody’s yard, but a local activist contends last week’s accident shows just how badly pedestrian improvements are needed in the area around the town green.
“While I was alarmed by the fact that a car could so easily and crazy/dangerously run up off East Avenue and over the sidewalk and end up on the front lawn at my neighbor’s building… I was secretly almost delighted that such an event would occur with Police fanfare / action because we have worked so hard on trying to get the City to address this particular section of the EA corridor,” Bradford Craighead wrote in an email to NancyOnNorwalk.
Police are investigating a crash that killed a pedestrian in Fairfield
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Connecticut State Police from Troop G said Christine McMahon, 69, of Fairfield, was killed when she was struck by a vehicle on Nov. 7./
FAIRFIELD State Police are still looking into a deadly crash that killed a woman and injured another in November the latest in an “alarming” trend of pedestrian deaths, according to a study released Wednesday.
The number of pedestrian fatalities more than doubled from 2009 to 2018, after decreasing for three decades before that, according to AAA’s new study. Connecticut’s 2020 numbers are still being finalized but were lower than 2019 due to the pandemic, officials said.