For the third time in six weeks, a pedestrian was struck by a vehicle on the Cedar Springs strip over the weekend.
This time, the victim reportedly is a 10-year-old girl, but her injuries aren’t believed to be life-threatening.
Dallas police said today they could provide few additional details about the accident. No offense report was generated since the driver of the vehicle stopped at the scene.
According to 911 call records, the incident was reported at 2:35 p.m. on Saturday and took place at 4100 Cedar Springs Road.
Sr. Cpl. Kevin Janse, a spokesman for DPD, said the unidentified victim was transported to Children’s Medical Center.
“From what I can tell by the notes on the call sheet, the child had non-life threatening injuries, but may have had possible broken bones, but it does not say which bones,” Janse said.
Dallas Voice is working to obtain an accident report from DPD’s Open Records Division.
Unconfirmed eyewitness accounts forwarded to the newspaper indicate the victim is a 10-year-old girl who had just exited a school bus from a field trip and was struck by a pickup truck.
Two pedestrians were killed last month on the Cedar Springs strip in accidents involving hit-and-run drivers. Wayne Priest, 55, died after being struck Nov. 3 near Cedar Springs and Reagan Street. Edward Lee King, 61, was hit Nov. 25 near Cedar Springs and Knight Street.
In response to the deadly accidents — the first in recent memory on the strip — Dallas City Councilwoman Angela Hunt has asked city staff to look at ways to make the area safer for pedestrians.
Thank you for keeping this in front of our community. Angela Hunt — and perhaps other City Councillors — are working with staff to see what the city can do.
Meanwhile, Oak Lawn Library full-timers and volunteers are stunned by an accident in another part of the city. A car struck one of the staff, injuring her badly.
Perhaps one of Dallas’ very profitable ad agencies will mount a pr campaign aimed at keeping pedestrians safe and keeping drivers in the slow lane, with their eyes on the roadway and not on their cellphones.
I worked for months to try and get better crosswalks to help there to no avail! I met with everyone from Angela Hunt’s office, to the City Transportation offices. Of course the politicians said they wanted to help, but the Transportation division said Cedar Springs didn’t qualify for crosswalks with stop lights and such because there was not enough traffic to warrant spending money. I would think saving lives would warrant spending money!
There are existing, well indentified crosswalks with timed stop lights on Cedar Springs at Oak Lawn, Throckmorton, Douglas and Wycliff. Public money has already been spent to install and maintain them. There are existing laws that stop traffic loading and unloading children from schood buses and warning lights on the buses. Although physical measures can always be improved I believe improvement, regarding these tragic incidents, can be made in public awareness of pedestrain and traffic safety.
my husband was hit by car and died on 12-6=11,,the lady according to cops was allowed to leave scence right after it happened cuz eyes were not glossy but kept me there for twenty minutes askin me if he was drunk or taking anything,ughhit was 632 in morning he was walkin to work,just cause he looked different you are asking bout the dead man and letting her go,im not sure how stories get in papers i justed wanted to write some of his story,,i think he was worth that and alot more,