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Double Pedestrian Fatal On Highway 29; Another Pedestrian Killed On Michigan Avenue
March 27, 2022
Two pedestrians were struck and killed early Sunday morning in Ensley, and another pedestrian was killed on Michigan Avenue.
The Florida Highway Patrol said a sedan driven by a 25-year old Pensacola man was traveling north on Highway 29 in the outside lane about 12:05 a.m. As the car entered the intersection on a green light, a 43-year old man and a 40-year old female from Iowa were walking in an undetermined direction in the path of the vehicle.
The pedestrians were walking near our outside of the crosswalk when they were hit. They were pronounced dead at the scene.
The driver of the car and his 20-year old passenger received minor injuries.
“It is unknown at this time the purpose or direction of travel of the pedestrians prior to the collision,” FHP said.
Anyone with information on the crash is asked to call *FHP.
Michigan Avenue
A 30-year old woman from Pensacola was also struck and killed about 8:25 p.m. Saturday on Michigan Avenue at Chicago Avenue.
The Florida Highway Patrol said she was walking across Michigan Avenue and stepped into the path of a Honda driven by a 21-year old Pensacola man. She was pronounced deceased.
“Any charges will be pending the outcome of the traffic homicide investigation,” FHP said.
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17 Responses to “Double Pedestrian Fatal On Highway 29; Another Pedestrian Killed On Michigan Avenue”
We definitely are a two-faced society. Where were all of you “pedestrians have right of way” and “roads aren’t safe for pedestrians” when the article was about building a raised walkway for students at the new school on 9 mile road in Beulah?
All I read on that comments section was how none of you wanted to pay for a raised walk way for CHILDREN. But let some pedestrians who don’t know how to cross or walk down a road get hit and killed and it’s “roads aren’t meant for people anymores” Roads were never made for people to walk down they were made for cars to drive down.
I’ve been walking the roads of our community since I learned to walk and I’ve never been hit by a vehicle.
I wasn’t there and I don’t know what happened, but if she was struck crossing at Chicago why was she crossing there? 1 Block East is a light and crosswalk.
The meaning behind pedestrians have the right of way has been twisted in my opinion. I think to many people say “Oh well, they have to stop, I’m not walking a block that way to cross”. Every area that has a high rate of pedestrian / vehicle collisions gets looked at for slower speeds, speed bumps, more speed traps, fines for drivers, medians, walls, walkways. One thing I have never seen is the Police sitting somewhere and writing pedestrians tickets for walking into or across the road where they shouldn’t. If we keep telling people that the person driving is at fault always then people will keep walking out in traffic with no regard for anyone driving on that road.
REGARDING
“If we were offered today a transportation system that strikes and kills 1000s of citizens a year, many more dead and sick through pollution, warms our atmosphere, and destroys our cities, we would wisely say “no thanks” ”
Probably not
1.3 fatalities per 100 million vehicle miles traveled (and usually closer to 1.1 per million miles). Walking nonstop 24 hours per day at 5 miles per hour would take almost 740 years to walk that distance.
Thanks to our flawed transportation infrastructure a person can escape from the path of hurricane or wildfire.
Ambulance available to save lives, don’t have to die alone at home waiting for any hope of help.
Law enforcement can help when criminals threaten you or loved ones.
Fire fighters can help you in case your house is on fire or in danger of being burned down by wildfires.
Food, medicine and other vital supplies can reach you quickly daily or in emergencies.
Nearly nobody dies without someone doing something stupid or thoughtless.
That can happen walking 740 years too.
You can also reduce risk by slowing to 45 miles per hour, nearly NO deaths at that speed. Sure, you would spend more of your life driving so slowly, but you COULD do it.
Improvements can help, such as self-driving cars and suchlike, but what we already have does more good for us than many realize. If you have a system which would actually beat it (not just shoving everyone in small spaces with no access to all other benefits), surely folks will listen.
David for counting the cost and the benefits
It should be tougher to obtain a drivers license. You should be able to demonstrate true proficiency and complete understanding of the responsibility involved.
We give licenses out like candy on halloween.
God, stroads, why does america have to be so car-based and not actual people-based? Can’t we just be like europe? Exercise, base our cities around walking, cycling, communal transport, and similar?
America is infested with stroads, stroads are streets designed like a road, but fails at being both well, little sidewalks or crossings, extremely high speeds despite it being a street and not a highway, just, terrible.
Hopefully we can fix americas city design in the future, and stop basing our cities around expensive personal vehicles which should be a want, not a need.
A bit dumb we don’t build better infrastructure for the people! Walking and biking is what real men do
I lost my beautiful Paula girlfriend of four years about a year and half ago while she was jogging and she was on the phone with me – I heard the whole thing its my nightmare now. stay away from roads whenever possible.
If we were offered today a transportation system that strikes and kills 1000s of citizens a year, many more dead and sick through pollution, warms our atmosphere, and destroys our cities, we would wisely say “no thanks” but here we are with that very system, and so reluctant to change it because we are used to it. Deaths like this aren’t “accidents” – they happen because of bad car based infrastructure, and will continue to happen until the infrastructure is changed.
Our infrastructure is overwhelmingly hostile to pedestrians and cyclists and needs to be fixed to prevent tragedies like this in the future. I’m truly sorry for the family’s loss, as they absolutely deserve better.
REGARDING:
“pedestrians have the right of way”
Drivers are instructed to yield the right of way, That does not mean they always will — they may not even be seen — and even being dead right is just another form of dead.
David for caution
Actual Florida Law on the matter:
Title XXIII
MOTOR VEHICLES
Chapter 316
(7)(a) The driver of a vehicle at an intersection that has a traffic control signal in place shall stop before entering the crosswalk and remain stopped to allow a pedestrian, with a permitted signal, to cross a roadway when the pedestrian is in the crosswalk or steps into the crosswalk and is upon the half of the roadway upon which the vehicle is traveling or when the pedestrian is approaching so closely from the opposite half of the roadway as to be in danger.
(b) The driver of a vehicle at any crosswalk where signage so indicates shall stop and remain stopped to allow a pedestrian to cross a roadway when the pedestrian is in the crosswalk or steps into the crosswalk and is upon the half of the roadway upon which the vehicle is traveling or when the pedestrian is approaching so closely from the opposite half of the roadway as to be in danger.
(c) When traffic control signals are not in place or in operation and there is no signage indicating otherwise, the driver of a vehicle shall yield the right-of-way, slowing down or stopping if need be to so yield, to a pedestrian crossing the roadway within a crosswalk when the pedestrian is upon the half of the roadway upon which the vehicle is traveling or when the pedestrian is approaching so closely from the opposite half of the roadway as to be in danger. Any pedestrian crossing a roadway at a point where a pedestrian tunnel or overhead pedestrian crossing has been provided shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles upon the roadway.
(8) No pedestrian shall suddenly leave a curb or other place of safety and walk or run into the path of a vehicle which is so close that it is impossible for the driver to yield.
(9) Whenever any vehicle is stopped at a marked crosswalk or at any unmarked crosswalk at an intersection to permit a pedestrian to cross the roadway, the driver of any other vehicle approaching from the rear shall not overtake and pass such stopped vehicle.
(10) Every pedestrian crossing a roadway at any point other than within a marked crosswalk or within an unmarked crosswalk at an intersection shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles upon the roadway.
(11) Between adjacent intersections at which traffic control signals are in operation, pedestrians shall not cross at any place except in a marked crosswalk.
(12) No pedestrian shall, except in a marked crosswalk, cross a roadway at any other place than by a route at right angles to the curb or by the shortest route to the opposite curb.
(13) Pedestrians shall move, whenever practicable, upon the right half of crosswalks.
(14) No pedestrian shall cross a roadway intersection diagonally unless authorized by official traffic control devices, and, when authorized to cross diagonally, pedestrians shall cross only in accordance with the official traffic control devices pertaining to such crossing movements.
(15) Notwithstanding other provisions of this chapter, every driver of a vehicle shall exercise due care to avoid colliding with any pedestrian or any person propelling a human-powered vehicle and give warning when necessary and exercise proper precaution upon observing any child or any obviously confused or incapacitated person.
I was taught in drivers Ed, pedestrians have the right of way. Because my instructor understood I could kill them but they could not kill me.
Should be worth asking why these pedestrians were in harm’s way to begin with as well. Could it be there are no safe crossings?
I’ve been realizing how centered around cars everything is. I had my car in the shop for two weeks and had to get around on foot or asking friends for rides, etc and it was so difficult. Our streets and cities aren’t made for people, they are made around cars. I wonder how we’ve ended up so far away from letting people get around in the purest form of transportation, their own two feet.
We’ve created a world for cars, not people, and then wonder why cars keep killing people. Being outside of a vehicle in our traffic network at home is nearly as deadly as being outside of a vehicle on another planet.
People just think they have the right of way cause they on foot .Must respect cars more sorry for they loss
The way people walk down the middle of our busiest roadways and hardly ever use a crosswalk, its not surprising this happens almost every day..
People wander into traffic everywhere. Bicyclists riding at night with no reflectors, no lights and on the wrong side of the road. People walking at night wearing dark clothes. Pedestrians assume the lines on the pavement offers some sort of protection. It’s amazing pedestrian and cyclist deaths aren’t higher than they are.
I have never see so many people killed walking on our roads…I am sorry for the family’s loss