New safety features will be added to an intersection where a Howard University student was struck and killed by a car on campus. One Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner suggested these updates should have been done earlier.
鈥淢y understanding is that there was a safety walk about eight months ago, where these were some of the changes that they were thinking about but until Mohamed died, they didn’t actually implement them,鈥� ANC Commissioner Josh Jacobson told 91欧美激情.
On April 11, 18-year-old Mohamed Samura was walking on the D.C. campus, police said. The driver was traveling northbound on 6th Street from Howard Place at a 鈥渉igh rate of speed,鈥� then tried to turn left at the intersection on Fairmont and 6th streets, mounted a curb and struck Samura.
Single Vehicle crash- 2700 Blk. 6th St. NW pedestrian struck non- life threatening. 1 person being transported.
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Samura died in the hospital a few days later.
The university鈥檚 campus newspaper,聽The Hilltop, reported the driver was a faculty member.
DDOT will install raised crosswalks at that intersection and also install a bike rack at that corner, 鈥渨here if someone were to speed and jumped the curb, instead of hitting a person, they would hit a bike rack,鈥� Jacobson said.
鈥淒DOT said it should be within a month or two,鈥� Jacobson said. 鈥淚t just takes too long and comes at the cost of people’s lives before big changes that are needed are made.鈥�
91欧美激情 has reached out to DDOT for comment on the project.
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