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Elaine Brooks has gone almost four years without her daughter, and still the pain and grief are fresh in her mind. Lisa Torry Smith was killed, and her six-year-old son severely injured, when the driver of a car struck them in a crosswalk while she was walking him to school in October 2017. âIt happens when you least expect it,â said Brooks, Smithâs mother. âThatâs why a sudden death like that is so hard to get your arms around, and deal with. You donât ever really deal with it. You continue to grieve, for years.â Smithâs family and friends secured a measure of solace in the Texas Legislature this year. A new law, known as the Lisa Torry Smith Act, is set to go into effect Sept. 1. ....
When I first started covering local politics almost a decade ago, I had this thought that they were inherently less partisan than much of the national conversation. While national political figures argued about the major culture clashes of the day, the work of local leaders was decidedly less sexy, my thinking went. Whereas a U.S. Senator might become famous largely through criticizing the opposition party, those in municipal government had to make decisions about issues that provided no easy Democratic or Republican answers. Where should we place this road? How should we address neighborhood flooding concerns? The work of local government is essential, but in a more grassroots manner. A Democrat and a Republican could conceivably agree on how to address some of the biggest issues in a way that seems impossible in Washington D.C. these days. ....
Drivers who hit someone in a crosswalk in Texas could now face prison time, thanks to new law named after Fort Bend County woman Published: Updated: Tags: Lisa Torry Smith Act HOUSTON – Not many days after Lisa Torry Smith died in 2017, after family members learned it was not a crime in Texas to drive into someone in a crosswalk, they decided the law needed to change. About four years later, a new Texas law in her name will go into effect, which makes it a crime, punishable by fines and up to two years in prison, to hit and cause injury to a person in a crosswalk. ....
State lawmakers pass Lisa Torry Smith Act after Missouri City mom killed in neighborhood crosswalk Tags: Missouri City, Texas – Texas lawmakers have passed the Lisa Torry Smith Act more than three years after the mother of two was hit by a vehicle and later died. “If we can help to prevent this from happening to another mother who simply wants to walk her child to school then this honors my sister’s life,” Gina Torry said. Smith was hit in a crosswalk in her Missouri City neighborhood while walking her 6-year old son Logan to school. The 6-year old kindergartner suffered a broken femur and shattered pelvis but survived the October 2017 incident. ....
Texas lawmakers consider bill named after Missouri City woman killed in a crosswalk in 2017 Tags: The 6-year-old kindergartner suffered a broken femur and shattered pelvis in the October 2017 incident. The driver of the SUV that hit the Smiths was ticketed but not charged criminally and not indicted by a grand jury because the law didn’t allow it. The Lisa Torry Smith Act would make it a Class A misdemeanor to hit someone in a crosswalk, and a “state jail felony” if the victim “suffered serious bodily injury.” Ad Torry and Lisa’s former husband Elliot Smith, among others, have led the three-and-a-half-year battle to change the law. ....