A Bend family whose teenage daughter was hit by a car while crossing the street near a local middle school is suing Bend-La Pine Schools for negligence, alleging it failed to adequately provide crossing guards, signs and lights prior to the crash.
Brian E. Cutler Jr. and his teenage daughter are also suing TAC Construction Inc., and its employee, Charles Laurie, who drove the company’s car involved in the crash on March 29, 2022, according to Deschutes County Circuit Court records filed April 17.
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We've been proposing for years that the city puts in cross walks for kids to safely get to school for years at Pine Ridge Elementary. It's sad that it takes real accidents to happen for anyone step up and take notice. Hopefully the city does whats right and preemptively puts in crosswalks, lights, flags, guards near all the public schools.
I'm not sure how the driver is innocent per his company's comment. State law regarding crosswalks is pretty clear if someone is in one, you stop.
The city should be held liable too. The city continues to spend millions on designs to I crease vehcile speeds and capacity before addressing safety issues they know about. Look carefully at the construction project cited along Neff. The majority of those funds are going to the Neff/purcell intersection that they are widening and removing bike lanes!
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