A driver killed an Alameda woman while she was walking across Ralph Appezzato Memorial Parkway (RAMP). This latest tragedy happened on Wednesday, Jan. 16.
The city’s press release includes a few details about this, Alameda’s first traffic fatality of the year. The cross street: Coral Sea Street (and Poggi St). The time: 6:30 p.m. on an otherwise normal evening (so dark but hardly late). The likely behavior of the motorist at the time: turning through the intersection to go westbound on RAMP (toward Alameda Point).
It’s not my place to speculate or to get ahead of staff’s investigation into this specific crash and its specific conditions (or to get ahead of family and friends dealing with this horrible situation).
However, I think it is my place — and the broader public’s place — to be upset that a person on foot was just killed in practically the same spot as another pedestrian five years ago…