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Parents and council urge faster pedestrian-safety fixes after child struck; bike-walk committee made permanent
Summary
After an emotional series of public comments about crashes on 83rd Street and Lee Boulevard — including a mother’s account of her son’s fatal collision — Leawood’s council pledged more focus on pedestrian safety and voted to make the bike-walk committee a permanent standing committee to develop recommendations and coordinate with police and public works.
Leawood — An emotional public-comment period at the Nov. 3 Leawood Governing Body meeting focused on pedestrian safety after a recent child traffic fatality, prompting residents to press the council for faster short-term fixes and a formal analysis of crash patterns.
Monica Omert, who said her son Duke was fatally struck while crossing Lee Boulevard on Oct. 13, described first responders performing CPR and the family’s subsequent hospital transport. “They were doing CPR on my son in the middle of the road,” Omert said, recounting the scene and urging the city to “commission a formal city analysis of pedestrian crash patterns, particularly North of 435 and the older parts of our city.”
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