The City of Nelson has added two signs to help drivers notice the crosswalk across Hall Mines Road at the Highway 6 interchange.
A Trafalgar student was hospitalized after being struck by a car while on the way to school on Sept. 19. She was using the crosswalk at the intersection of Observatory Street and Hall Mines Road when she was hit.
The city’s public works director Colin Innes told the Star on Monday that police have informed him speed was not a factor in the incident and no other vehicles were involved.
“So we came down here to take a look at the site,” Innes said, “looking for what this driver would have been seeing, looking for any structural impediments that would have prevented the driver from seeing the pedestrian.”
They saw none, he said, but decided to add a “pedestrian ahead” sign above the hospital sign on the right side of the highway approaching the intersection from the south, and they will be cutting some brush to make that sign more visible.
And they have placed an additional crosswalk sign on a small traffic island in the middle of the intersection.
Innes said the intersection is not considered one of Nelson’s most dangerous.
“With the incident data the police were able to share, and looking at various intersections, this one has had a very low number of incidents related to it. If we had gone out on a program looking for intersections to improve, this would not have been one of them.”
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