Charlotte Injury Lawyers Blog
Yet again there has been a pedestrian hit by a car and inadequate crosswalks may be to blame. On Monday, April 16, 2012, 13-year-old Jessi Mendoza-Valdez had an unfortunate encounter with a car as he was crossing the street and two days later he died from his injuries. He was trying to cross a busy intersection during rush hour traffic.
Valdez and his parents lived at the Misty Woods Apartment complex. On Monday afternoon, he was trying to cross the Central Avenue from the side of the street where his apartment complex was located to the other side where a small group of stores was located. He successfully made it to the middle of the road onto the median, but when he was trying to make it across the rest of the way he was hit by a car.
The driver of the vehicle immediately stopped to help Valdez and remained on the scene while the police began their investigation. He has been cooperating with the police the investigation. An eyewitness to the accident, Anival Sandoval, had just made it into the store when the accident occurred. Wednesday, Sandoval noted that the same intersection where Valdez was hit has posed a danger in the past because of the lack of crosswalks there.
