Rochester City Council Member Molly Clifford and County Legislator Cindy Kaleh walked along Lake Avenue yesterday…trying to raise awareness about the dangers of trying to run across or walk in one of the city’s busiest roads.
They went from Lake and Phelps, where Candido Colon was hit by a motorcycle and killed on Monday, to Emerson Street. It’s an area of Northwest Rochester that has a high volume of pedestrian-vehicle accidents. Another one happened yesterday when a man police say was panhandling in the street was hit by a car. It was at the same location and virtually the same time of day as the fatal accident on Monday, but this time the victim survived.
Clifford says she gets the irony. She says the officials along with police and volunteers from Lake Avenue Baptist Church are trying pedestrian outreach, talking to people they meet on the street about using the crosswalks and signals at the corners.
Clifford says the city has trimmed trees for visibility and police are doing speed enforcement. She says this seems to be mainly a pedestrian issue.
There were three similar accidents in the area over the last winter.