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Fayetteville police review string of pedestrian collisions, committee weighs safety fixes
Summary
Police briefed the Active Transportation Advisory Committee on multiple recent pedestrian and bicycle collisions, including hit-and-run and school-crossing incidents. Committee members pressed staff on sight lines, signal timing, geofenced scooter slow zones and portable in-street signage for crossing guards.
Police and committee members told the Fayetteville Active Transportation Advisory Committee on Nov. 12 that the city has seen a series of pedestrian-involved crashes in the past month, prompting renewed attention to sight lines, signal timing and micro‑mobility controls.
Devin Norris summarized several incidents, including a scooter rider struck at Rupa and Persimmon where the striking vehicle initially left the scene and was later found at fault; a collision at Lawson and Leverett in which a pedestrian who walked behind an articulated transit vehicle was transported to Arkansas Children’s Hospital; and a bicycle struck on Martin Luther King Boulevard after a…
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