2012 Chicago fatality stats*:
Pedestrian: 25 (12 have been hit-and-run crashes)
Pedalcyclist: 6 (1 is a hit-and-run crash)
Transit: 8
Skateboard: 1 (1 is a hit-and-run crash)
The Chicago Tribune reports this morning about two fatal pedestrian crashes.
Crash 1
Friday, November 16, 2012
6 PM
5000 block of N Western Avenue, Lincoln Square
A vehicle struck two people, both of whom were taken to Saint Francis Hospital in Evanston.
One of them, 85-year-old Evanston resident Raymond Lending, was pronounced dead at 9:09 p.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. [It’s not mentioned where the pedestrians and vehicle were when the collision occurred, nor if the driver received any citations.]
Crash 2
Saturday, November 17, 2012
12:43 AM
5200 block of S Cicero Avenue, Archer Heights
[A] 61-year-old man was struck by a vehicle about 12:43 a.m. while crossing the street, [Chicago Police Department News Affair Officer Ron] Gaines said. The man was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 1:33 a.m.
The driver in the Archer Heights collision is in police custody, but no charges have been filed yet, Gaines said.
At the end of the year I will be collating the statistics from our Fatality Tracker; a majority of the people who’ve been killed, as pedestrians, are older than 50 years old.
* The information is only accurate as of this post’s publishing time. View previous Fatality Tracker posts.
More robot cars…
Horrendous conditions along stretch of Western from about Ainslie to Peterson. Eastern side walk is so full of glass & trash that people getting off the northbound bus pretty much have to cross immediately to the western side. The lighting provide terrible contrast, so there’s almost no way for a slower moving individual to safely exit a parked car much less make it from the bus across to the western side of the street.
Last night saw a woman barely make it from near where the nature preserve will be at Rosehill, which highlighted for me how much effort will have to be made to ensure safe pedestrian & bike access to the nature preserve, especially given that Mr. Lending was hit not far from the RM-5 rezoning just south of the preserve for possible future development as senior housing (http://www.aldermanoconnor.com/archive/proposed-rosehill-nature-preserve/).
And today there’s another ped fatality, this time in Pilsen.
WBBM mentioned this on the radio this morning and I searched for articles for several hours. Gonna try and look again.
And another one from over the weekend: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-pedestrian-struck-killed-in-avalon-park-neighborhood-20121118,0,5920218.story
WTF.
Thank you. I didn’t see this one.