Metro says that it fired the bus driver who struck a female jogger during a Washington DC pedestrian accident on September 3. Carla A. Proctor hit Amanda Mahnke while operating an empty bus on Florida Avenue NW. The 30-year-old jogger is Representative Rick Larsen’s communications director. She fractured her skull…
There have been reports of a recent rise in pedestrian deaths in the Washington D.C. area. While 17 pedestrians were killed on D.C. roads during all of 2006, four pedestrians were killed within one week alone in early February. By February 12, five pedestrians fatalities in D.C. had already been…
Yesterday, A 7-year-old child was hit by a motor vehicle after she ran onto the 2900 block of Stanton Road. According to police, the child is being treated for bruises and scrapes. This is the second child pedestrian-related accident on a D.C. street in the last few days.Just five days…