Kris Cole's letter to the editor on Feb. 5 ("Kids' lives at risk at problem crosswalk") really hit home for me. A year and a half ago I was pushing my twin one-year-old girls in their stroller across a 15th Avenue crosswalk along with my brother.
We had stopped, looked both ways and proceeded to cross when no vehicles were coming. Suddenly a car came flying up over the hill by the hospital and was barreling towards us.
The older lady obviously did not see us and was not slowing down.
I quickly pulled the stroller backwards to get out of the way. The driver slammed on her brakes and came within inches of mowing down my brother.
She looked absolutely mortified. We composed ourselves and crossed 15th Avenue. The lady drove slowly beside us and rolled down her window to apologize.
"I'm so sorry. I didn't even see you there."
The sad thing is this is so common in Prince George that it's scary. You can see it happening every day. The city needs to step up and install push button lights that force vehicles to stop at all the major crosswalks where traffic is steady.
The RCMP should also be setting up sting operations to nail people who fail to stop at crosswalks for pedestrians.
Most importantly, drivers need to be more aware of watching for crosswalks and pedestrians before killing someone because "I'm sorry, I didn't see you" won't cut it.
Adrian Castley
Prince George
