Detroit family home continues to get hit by cars speeding off Lodge Freeway
Insurance rates starting to skyrocket for family
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DETROIT – For decades now the home of Camille Lewis has been the final destination for cars going way too fast while exiting the Lodge Freeway.
“Just imagine waking up in the morning and hearing a loud boom. That was scary. We were raised in this house. That’s my grandparents’ house and since I can remember, somebody always runs into our house,” said Lewis.
The latest incident happened over the weekend when an SUV came crashing through the porch, just barely missing the rest of the home. But that’s not the biggest vehicle to crash into the Washburn home.
Detroit saw a summer of civil unrest that will be remembered for generations.
Thousands of people hit the streets daily for months to protest police brutality and the treatment of Black people in the U.S. Tear gas coated the sky, rubber bullets flew, and hundreds of protesters were arrested. All the while, the novel coronavirus ran its course through Detroit, killing more people in the city than anything else aside from heart disease.
Also in 2020, the FBI said it foiled a plot involving more than a dozen men planning to kidnap and possibly kill Gov. Gretchen Whitmer; the Detroit Police Department significantly expanded its surveillance capabilities on several fronts; Detroit had a bloody year, with a sharp increase in shootings and homicides; Wayne County s sheriff died of COVID-19; and despite many fewer cars on the road, there was an uptick in fatal crashes and freeway shootings.
Dec 10, 2020
In the last phase of the $40 million Smart City Challenge Grant awarded to Columbus, Ohio, by the U.S. Department of Transportation in 2016, the Smart Columbus project launched new features for the Pivot and ParkColumbus apps.
Pivot helps residents and visitors plan and pay for their local trips using one or more transportation options like public transit, ride-hailing, carpool, bikeshares, scooters, taxis and even personal vehicles or bikes. It now offers an app-to-app payment portal linking from Pivot to partner mobility providers’ apps.
The new ParkColumbus features bring private and public parking options together in one app to allow drivers to find, reserve and pay for most parking garages and some surface lots. Additionally, the integration of city data with payment transactions and on-street sensor data allows the app to show drivers the likelihood of finding an on-street parking space.