Montreal looking for answers after string of accidents involving pedestrians
MONTREAL — A string of serious accidents involving pedestrians in Montreal has public officials and residents rethinking how to keep citizens safe in Canada’s biggest cities.
At least two people were killed and two others injured in separate road accidents over a three day period last week, including an 87-year-old woman struck and killed while crossing a street in the St-Laurent borough.
Her death — the 14th pedestrian death of the year — has raised alarm bells among officials, who are questioning why the pedestrian death toll stubbornly refuses to go down even as most other data shows cities becoming safer than ever.
While road injuries and deaths have been in steady decline over the past few years, there has been a slight uptick in fatal accidents involving pedestrians in recent years in Quebec, according to the province’s automobile association.