Unsafe speeds and reckless driving: Deadly Windsor Hills wreck ‘is the tip of the iceberg’
LA TimesResident Darryl Grayson, head of the local HOA, frequently visits the crash site at Slauson and La Brea avenues where five people were killed recently near his home in Los Angeles. An estimated 9,560 people died in crashes in the first three months of this year in the U.S., according to preliminary data released this week by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. “It’s almost like people forgot common-sense traffic safety rules out there,” said Doug Shoupe, a spokesperson for the American Automobile Assn. And plans to narrow streets often meet strong opposition from drivers who chafe at the notion of a “road diet.” Jonathan Adkins, executive director of the Governors Highway Safety Assn., said the Windsor Hills crash that took multiple lives might not have been so severe had the road been designed with more impediments toward picking up tremendous speed. “If a neighborhood that is financially blessed as we are can’t get the resources to protect our streets, I can’t imagine how other people in South L.A. are feeling and how they can be protected,” said Leon Blum, a View Park-Windsor Hills resident.
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