The same trend is reflected in cities across America.
(Bowser did not respond to requests for comment.) Ironically, total traffic fatalities have increased steadily since the program began. The District Department of Transportation has made some changes to protect walkers and cyclists, such as reducing speed limits and installing more bike lanes. This is all despite Mayor Muriel Bowser’s goal to end traffic deaths by 2024 as part of the Vision Zero program signed on to by leaders of D.C.
#The pedestrian drivers
So far this year, 15 pedestrians have been killed by drivers in the nation’s capital, and total traffic fatalities are up to 37-the highest number since 2008. This was someone making the choice to drive recklessly, and they killed my beautiful girl,” Nina’s mother, Matilde Larson, told The Washington Post. Cars zoom through at unbelievable speeds, despite the fact that the area is packed with shoppers and restaurant-goers at all hours of the day. The intersection comes right after a stoplight, and Columbia doesn’t have a stop sign or a speed bump.
#The pedestrian driver
It’s still not clear exactly how or why the driver hit Nina that afternoon-did she simply not see her? Was Nina in the crosswalk, or somewhere else in the street? But I’ve almost been hit in the same place, at Columbia Road and Biltmore Street, approximately 100 times. The rate at which drivers kill pedestrians surged by 21 percent from 2019 to 2020, the largest annual increase on record. Data from the Governors Highway Safety Association suggest that American drivers struck and killed more than 6,700 pedestrians last year, a number unmatched in this century. The horrible reality is that, for the people who did not know her, Nina Larson will be remembered as one more pedestrian struck and killed in a city where it happens all the time, in a country where it happens all the time. This is the part that I cannot stop thinking about: the fact that Nina’s life, in all its human complexity, was in a matter of hours reduced to a handful of images-an old Facebook profile photo, a strand of yellow caution tape, an abandoned jacket. Many of those stories featured the same photo of a lump of black fabric, presumably Nina’s coat, lying in the middle of the road. On Sunday, local news stories announced that Nina had died of her injuries at the hospital. I witnessed only the aftermath-the detectives’ chalk analysis on the pavement, the flowers piling up outside the nearby restaurant where Nina was a server.
#The pedestrian free
Nina was trapped for a while, according to police reports, before emergency workers were able to free her from the car’s underbelly. My neighbor heard the sound of the accident from her sixth-floor window, and the driver’s horrified screams. On Saturday afternoon, she was crushed by a car on the street outside my apartment building in Washington, D.C. Nina Larson was 24 years old, and she wanted to be an opera singer.
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