Catalina Rivera, Martinez’s mother, said the family misses him deeply.
“He died a very hard death … I don’t know what else to say,” she said, choking up. “… I cry every day, I have his picture on my phone and every time I turn it on I see him.”
Rivera added, “it’s just the matter of the way he died – left there like a dog on the freeway…. I go to bed at night and I just picture him … it’s hard, very hard.”
The number of pedestrian crashes and deaths actually dropped last year, but Albuquerque, and New Mexico as a whole, is still considered one of the most dangerous places for pedestrians – a problem that officials say will take vision, money and a culture shift to solve.
Florida the deadliest state for pedestrians
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A couple of weeks ago I’m riding my bicycle on the roadway known as the Loop in Ormond Beach when I see a car coming. A car headed toward me in the wrong lane.
I figure he ll swerve back into place, but no, he isn t. In fact, he s speeding up as though aiming for me. I veer off the road, heart pumping, as he screams past.
Just another day riding on the Loop road.
The driver was in the wrong lane because he was passing multiple cars. His concentration was on the cars he was passing, so he likely never noticed I was there. I was taking things personally in believing he wanted to kill me. I tend to think people are trying to kill me every time I get on the road. It s something that explains Florida driver behavior to me.
Wednesday, March 10, 2021 by Danielle Prieur (WMFE)
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The Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford area is once again the most dangerous metropolitan area in the United States for pedestrians. That’s according to the latest Smart Growth America’s Dangerous by Design 2021 report.
“What can I do to make sure the next #DangerousByDesign doesn’t show these numbers?”
Take action. We have the recipe! A strong, federal #CompleteStreets policy is needed, but there are other concrete actions you can take at state, metro, or local levels: https://t.co/fk9F0rnDi4