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Monrovia residents press for traffic-safety fixes after hit-and-run pedestrian death
Summary
A resident told the council a young woman died Oct. 5 after a hit-and-run on West Duarte Road; the city manager said police continue to investigate, and that any infrastructure changes must go through the city's traffic safety committee and follow state procedures.
A Monrovia resident told the City Council on Oct. 21 that a young woman died after a hit-and-run crash on West Duarte Road near Eighth Street on Oct. 5, and urged the city to act to improve safety at the location.
"Every year, we have a terrible accident at that corner," resident Barbara Stryford said, citing multiple prior collisions at the same site and telling the council she had filed a safety report and left photographs showing obstructed sight lines. "There needs to be a traffic light there or something to slow the traffic down."
Stryford…
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