Link: Third pedestrian killed near Ramon Road and Sunrise Way in Palm Springs | mydesert.com | The Desert Sun.

Disturbing story of yet ANOTHER fatal accident last night at the same intersection where 2 other pedestrian fatalities have occurred in the last couple of weeks.

I live a couple of blocks from here. There are a number of circumstances which contribute to the danger level of this particular intersection:

• it’s fracking dark. Palm Springs just loves to be able to see the stars at night – and it is nice – but the result of that obsession is that there are hardly any streetlights in town. So, when it gets dark, it gets really, really dark and it’s nearly impossible to see anything that’s not lit up like a Christmas tree.
• We go fast. Both Ramon Road and Sunrise Way have speed limits in that area of at least 35 if not 40 mph. People speed – I’d say most cars go at 45 which makes it nearly impossible to stop if there was, say, a man lying in the street – which there was (one of these fatalities sounds like a suicide).
• People jaywalk. Not only is there a park (Sunrise Park) directly across the street from this little shopping center (which includes a Ralph’s, a Starbucks, a CVS, a Domino’s, and more) but people (many homeless, many high school students during the day) jaywalk from the park to the shopping center driveway halfway up the block from the intersection. It seems to be worse during the day when the high school kids run across the street dodging cars (the HS is about a block east of there) but at least you can see them and teenagers generally run fast.

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I’m not absolving any of the drivers here by any means – in fact, this latest accident was apparently a hit and run. Drivers – you need to slow down and keep your eyes open. Pedestrians – you need to cross at the light and don’t trust that drivers will see you and stop. When it’s you vs. a 2-ton mass of steel, plastic, human frailty and highly combustible fuel, there’s really no match.