In the wake of a hit-and-run accident that took the life of his dog, Milford resident Richard C. Morais has opened a memorial fund in her name at Greater Pike Community Foundation with the aim of enhancing pedestrian safety. The Maya Milford Memorial Fund for Public Safety will “underwrite solutions that address the perils facing individuals trying to cross the borough’s busy streets,” Greater Pike explained.
Morais is a novelist and financial writer whose family has been in Milford for four generations. As previously reported, in early September he was attempting to cross at Broad and Ann streets with his two dogs, Maya and Sherry, when vehicle driving too fast failed to stop for them at the crosswalk, as required by Pennsylvania law. Morais and one dog managed to jump out of the way, but Maya — a 4-year-old Chihuahua rescue — was struck and killed. The driver did not stop.
This wasn’t the first time Morais encountered dangerous conditions while walking his dogs. “I cannot tell you how many near-death experiences my dogs and I have had trying to cross Milford’s crosswalks,” Morais said. “Every effort is a life-and-death game of chicken.”…