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Three weeks ago, Sandra Henderson was hit and killed while trying to cross the South Belt Highway near Pickett Road. A little over a year earlier, a man suffered serious injuries in a pedestrian accident at the exact same location.
Multiple pedestrian accidents along the Belt Highway have led to safety concerns over one of the major roads that cut through St. Joseph.
Numerous restaurants, a bunch of shops, including two malls, and a plethora of gas stations all line the Belt and bring a lot of foot traffic, which the road isnât made for.
âThereâs not a sidewalk running from north to south,â said Sgt. James Tonn of the St. Joseph Police Department. âThere are blocks that have them and lots of blocks that donât. Itâll be nice to have sidewalks for everyone, because we do have a lot of people that even though they walk in the grass, a lot of people walk right along the edge of the road or even right along the edge of the road in the roadway, which i