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

RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) – A lethal crash is renewing phone calls for alter along Semmes Avenue immediately after a Huguenot Superior University scholar was killed when the car she was riding in crashed into a ability pole at Semmes and 22nd on Saturday.

Charles Redmond has only lived on Semmes for a very little above a 12 months and suggests incidents below are practically nothing new, but the aftermath he witnessed in Saturday’s lethal crash is the worst he’s observed.

“It’s the rushing that seriously receives our interest, in the earlier, it is generally screeches, bangs,” Redmond stated. “The driver came out and retained stating she’s only 17,” Redmond stated. “It definitely strike all of us.”

The target within the car or truck on Nov. 26 was 17-year-aged, Josie Cox.

Redmond suggests like so numerous other accidents its apparent speed was a variable.

“I overheard one particular of the investigators say that this white car or truck was likely drastically about the speed restrict,” explained Redmond.

The crash was so intense that it crash and bent the concrete electric power pole the motor vehicle caught on the median of Semmes and 22nd.

In accordance to point out crash documents, there have been at minimum 29 incidents alongside Semmes Avenue so much this year. At minimum four of those incidents, not such as Saturday’s fatality, have occurred at the 22nd Avenue intersection.

Redmond claims the community wants to see a lot more velocity enforcement.

“If the phrase will get out that Semmes Ave is a rushing ticket metropolis or a massive rushing ticket location it’s possible they will get the concept and consider their pursuits someplace else,” Redmon reported.

Town Councilor Stephanie Lynch’s office environment says new speed tables have been put in on West 25th and 26th streets in the previous couple of months to enable slow drivers concerning Bainbridge and Semmes. Much more serious actions on Semmes like narrowing the highway would demand permission from the state since Semmes Ave is technically a state route.

Lynch suggests she needs to see steps taken to slender the roads and incorporate infrastructure to aid pedestrians, bicyclists and public transportation, as very well as velocity enforcement, but these actions would call for cooperation with VDOT in purchase to be carried out.

In the meantime, as the metropolis mourns the reduction of however a different teenager Redmond hopes this most recent incident makes people today appear to their senses.

“This strike hard, it actually hit really hard,” Redmond stated. “The metropolis and hopefully the point out has received to do a little something to slow this down.

A prayer vigil has been planned for Cox behind the parking whole lot of the Haywood Hair Salon on Semmes Avenue across the road from the place the accident occurred. Folks are asked to dress in pink and white and bring candles.

For a lot more facts call United Communities In opposition to Criminal offense at 804-399-1111.

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