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CTV News
6 days ago
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- CTV News
Canada's first military-connected college crosswalk opens at Fanshawe
Hundreds gather at Fanshawe College to watch the unveiling of Canada's first military crosswalk, reports CTV London's Lauren Stallone.
CTV News
6 days ago
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- CTV News
Canada's first military crosswalk unveiled
Hundreds gather at Fanshawe College to watch the unveiling of Canada's first military crosswalk, reports CTV London's Lauren Stallone.
The Guardian
6 days ago
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- The Guardian
Virginia activist charged with vandalism after drawing crosswalk at intersection
After officials in Charlottesville, Virginia, reportedly ignored his pleas to implement a pedestrian crosswalk at a dangerous intersection, traffic safety activist Kevin Cox drew a crossing with chalk. Authorities responded by covering Cox's handiwork with black paint and charging him with vandalism in a case that evidently demonstrates how acrimonious relations can sometimes get between local government bureaucrats in the US and those who say they are trying to hold them to account. As the Charlottesville news station WVIR put it, Cox is well known in the community for his outspoken pedestrian safety advocacy. He had recently focused his efforts on a municipal intersection where a 64-year-old woman was struck by a motorist and killed while trying to cross the road to get to work in October. Cox said he had since pleaded with city officials to lay down a crosswalk at that intersection. Those efforts went nowhere, so he said he took a line marker as well as a can of spray chalk to fashion a makeshift crosswalk on 17 May – a Saturday – as a crowd of onlookers cheered him. He also reportedly wrote an email to Charlottesville's city manager which read: 'There is a marked crosswalk now [at the intersection in question] in spite of you … It's chalk[,] not paint[.] Please replace it with a real one.' Police subsequently called Cox and accused him of committing vandalism. He soon surrendered and was booked with intentional destruction of property, which carries up to a year in jail as well as a maximum fine of $2,500, WVIR reported. A police report that Cox shared with the news station alleged that officers were unable to determine whether his improvised crosswalk had been created with permanent paint. Officials determined the crosswalk could not be removed, so city workers covered it with black paint. Cox has gotten a lawyer and was given a trial date tentatively scheduled for 14 July. 'They have provoked me,' Cox told WVIR. 'It's not going to stop me. 'This is a common cause for many people in the city. It's all about our day-to-day quality of life on the streets and the sidewalks, and everyone is affected by that.' A Charlottesville municipal spokesperson said on Tuesday that the city would not comment on the case against Cox because it was pending. Many know Charlottesville as the site of the unrelated 2017 white supremacist rally objecting to the removal of a statue of the Confederate general Robert E Lee. A demonstrator protesting against the white supremacists was murdered by a neo-Nazi sympathizer who intentionally drove a car into her as well as others.
CTV News
02-06-2025
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- CTV News
Child struck by hit-and-run driver in crosswalk west of Edmonton
An RCMP cruiser can be seen in this file photo. Police are looking for a driver of a vehicle that struck a youth in Spruce Grove last month. The victim was rollerblading in a designated crosswalk on Nelson Drive between Meadowpark Gate and Westlake Drive on May 4 when they were struck by a vehicle that left the scene. The youth was treated in hospital. The vehicle is described as a dark blue SUV driven by a man with a brown beard wearing a dark coloured baseball cap. Anyone with information is asked to contact Parkland RCMP at 825-220-2000. The age and gender of the victim has not been released.
Yahoo
01-06-2025
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- Yahoo
Six-year-old girl hit by car crossing a Seattle street
The Seattle Police Department says a six-year-old girl was hit by a car in the Central District while crossing the street. It happened just before noon near Rainier Avenue South and South Charles Street. Because of street construction at the intersection, an off-duty Parking Enforcement Officer saw the crash and quickly provided medical treatment to the child. The girl was rushed to Harborview Medical Center with critical injuries. Police say the girl and her mother were in a crosswalk at the time of the crash. The driver, an adult woman, stayed on scene and cooperated with police. Officers say she didn't show any signs of impairment, and she wasn't arrested.
