“Slow down, don’t drive intoxicated and put your phone down. These are things we can all do and respect life and not cause carnage in how we get from point A to point B,” Tony Cherolis said.
That’s why Cherolis, the Transport Hartford coordinator at the Center for Latino Progress in Hartford, supports the road safety bill the legislature is expected to debate in 2021.
According to Real Hartford blogger Kerri Provost, who has been mapping pedestrian fatalities across the state, at least 52 pedestrians and six cyclists have died after being struck by vehicles in the state this year alone.