Neighbors call for enforcement on Semmes after car accident killed RPS teen

RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) – A fatal crash is renewing phone calls for change along Semmes Avenue just after a Huguenot Significant University pupil was killed when the car she was driving in crashed into a energy pole at Semmes and 22nd on Saturday.

Charles Redmond has only lived on Semmes for a minor more than a 12 months and suggests mishaps right here are almost nothing new, but the aftermath he witnessed in Saturday’s lethal crash is the worst he’s witnessed.

“It’s the speeding that definitely will get our notice, in the past, it’s generally screeches, bangs,” Redmond explained. “The driver came out and held stating she’s only 17,” Redmond explained. “It truly hit all of us.”

The sufferer inside the car on Nov. 26 was 17-year-outdated, Josie Cox.

Redmond claims like so numerous other accidents its very clear pace was a factor.

“I overheard a single of the investigators say that this white auto was heading appreciably more than the pace restrict,” reported Redmond.

The crash was so intensive that it crash and bent the concrete power pole the auto stuck on the median of Semmes and 22nd.

In accordance to condition crash documents, there have been at least 29 mishaps together Semmes Avenue so considerably this year. At least 4 of all those incidents, not which include Saturday’s fatality, have occurred at the 22nd Street intersection.

Redmond claims the neighborhood desires to see additional velocity enforcement.

“If the word receives out that Semmes Ave is a dashing ticket city or a major rushing ticket region probably they will get the information and get their things to do someplace else,” Redmon explained.

Metropolis Councilor Stephanie Lynch’s office environment states new pace tables have been set up on West 25th and 26th streets in the past pair of months to enable slow drivers in between Bainbridge and Semmes. A lot more serious actions on Semmes like narrowing the road would call for permission from the state due to the fact Semmes Ave is technically a condition route.

Lynch claims she wants to see measures taken to slim the roads and add infrastructure to assist pedestrians, bicyclists and community transport, as effectively as velocity enforcement, but all those actions would demand cooperation with VDOT in order to be applied.

In the meantime, as the town mourns the reduction of nevertheless another teen Redmond hopes this latest incident makes folks come to their senses.

“This strike tricky, it genuinely hit really hard,” Redmond explained. “The metropolis and ideally the condition has bought to do one thing to sluggish this down.

A prayer vigil has been prepared for Cox driving the parking great deal of the Haywood Hair Salon on Semmes Avenue across the avenue from where by the incident transpired. Men and women are questioned to put on pink and white and bring candles.

For far more information get in touch with United Communities From Criminal offense at 804-399-1111.

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