{"id":550,"date":"2016-01-14T08:05:35","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T13:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/?p=550"},"modified":"2016-06-14T09:45:53","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T13:45:53","slug":"about-tuesdays-pedestrian-death-on-washington-street-at-blue-ledge-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/2016\/01\/14\/about-tuesdays-pedestrian-death-on-washington-street-at-blue-ledge-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"About Tuesday’s Pedestrian Death on Washington Street at Blue Ledge Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Family photograph of Silvia Acosta (with Mayor Marty Walsh)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our deepest sympathies go out to the family of Silvia Acosta, a 78 year-old resident of our neighborhood who was tragically struck and killed by a motor vehicle on Washington Street<\/a> on Tuesday afternoon. Universal Hub has the most complete coverage so far of the crash<\/a>,\u00a0which occurred in the section of Washington Street between Walworth and the West Roxbury Parkway<\/a>. The Herald also has a report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What’s being reported so far is that the crash happened in the late afternoon (shortly after dark) and that Ms. Acosta\u00a0was in a crosswalk<\/strong> when she was struck.\u00a0It is noteworthy that the Suffolk DA’s office is charging the driver, who reportedly left the scene even though she later admitted she knew she had struck someone, with vehicular homicide by reckless operation as well. While it is important that individual drivers be held accountable for their actions, it is usually the case that larger design, infrastructure, and policy decisions play a significant role in these sorts of tragedies, demonstrating (unfortunately) how badly needed a vigorous VisionZero<\/a> policy and set of actions in our city really are.\u00a0We’ll follow this story as it unfolds further to see what exactly happened, what lessons can be learned, and what steps can and should be taken going forward to prevent pedestrian deaths around the location of the crash and throughout our neighborhood. And then we’ll do what we can to make sure those steps are taken. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n

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Washington Street and Blue Ledge Drive, Approximate Location of Impact<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our deepest sympathies go out to the family of Silvia Acosta, a 78 year-old resident of our neighborhood who was tragically struck and killed by a motor vehicle on Washington Street on Tuesday afternoon. Universal Hub has the most complete coverage so far of the crash,\u00a0which occurred in the section of Washington Street between Walworth […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,16],"tags":[191,9,250,49,192,12],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-safety","category-vision","tag-pedestrian-deaths","tag-roslindale","tag-silvia-acosta","tag-vision-zero","tag-visionzero-boston","tag-washington-street"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Silvia-Acosta.jpg?fit=1082%2C800&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6X5no-8S","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":563,"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions\/563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}