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Pedestrian Hit On Main Street Last Week

The woman declined to be taken to the hospital; the incident follows a hit-and-run on Main Street in February that injured two pedestrians.

 


A woman crossing Main Street near the EG Fire Station was hit by a car Friday. She declined medical treatment. It’s the second time in a month that a car has hit a pedestrian on Main Street.

On Feb. 19, two people were injured by a hit-and-run driver on Main Street, one seriously.

According to the police accident report, the incident on Friday took place around 11:15 a.m., when a car driven by Amanda Greene of East Greenwich attempted to turn onto Main Street from Dedford Street.

Greene told police she was stopped on Dedford Street when a car on Main Street stopped to let her turn onto Main Street. Greene drove through the crosswalk, hitting the pedestrian in the knee.

Greene told police she’d seen the pedestrian and another woman on the sidewalk and hadn’t realized they’d begun to cross the street.

The woman who was hit refused medical treatment at the scene. No one was charged.

According to Fire Chief Peter Henrikson, the two accidents on Main Street involving pedestrians are out of the ordinary. He said they are the only such accidents he can recall in the past year.

“The only concern we have here is I just wish they would illuminate the crosswalks better, especially at night,” Henrikson said.

Related Topics: Accident, Crosswalk, Hit And Run, Main Street, and Pedestrian

Heather Larkin

5:25 pm on Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Did I read that correctly... The woman hit her daughter in the crosswalk?

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Elizabeth McNamara

9:46 pm on Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Heather,
The short answer is No. I'd left out a word, but even adding that in didn't make it clearer, so I deleted the reference to the daughter all together. The pedestrian and her daughter (a grown woman) were crossing the street together. Sorry for the confusion!

EG0521

5:48 pm on Tuesday, March 19, 2013

i agree, main street is an impossible street at night, with it having cars on both sides, and on weekend nights it is almost impossible to see a pedestrian until the very last second

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