City of Fresno remember car crash victims on World Remembrance Day

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Twenty-seven helmets and pairs of shoes lined the h2o fountain astatine Fresno City Hall connected Sunday.

City Council Vice President Mike Karbassi gathered with friends and household members of victims who died portion walking oregon riding a motorcycle connected the road.

"A batch of it is behavior. It's red-light runners, it's folks that are distracted drivers. It's besides radical possibly that aren't paying attraction that are walking oregon biking and being proactive," said Karbassi.

The City of Fresno is allocating much wealth for due postulation flows, including motorcycle lanes and sidewalks. Karbassi said determination are already immoderate changes for cyclists connected metropolis streets.

"You make a container successful beforehand of the intersection astatine the bounds line. The cars are down that box, the bicycles are successful beforehand astatine the bounds line, truthful the different cars and the different 3 sides of the intersection," said Karbassi.

Holding pictures and signs, car collision unfortunate Adela Santana's friends and household accidental they are inactive waiting for justness 2 years aft she was killed portion riding her bike.

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"I retrieve that time clearly, and I cognize each my friends retrieve that time clearly. I retrieve what I was wearing, I retrieve wherever I was. I retrieve sitting by her connected the broadside of the road, holding her manus arsenic she laid determination with nary much beingness successful her body," said Santana's friend, Tracey Dunn.

Santana was struck by a operator successful October 2022. Since then, Dunn said beingness hasn't been the same.

"Her children are changed forever. The household is changed forever. Us arsenic friends are changed forever. We hold for that antheral to beryllium held accountable for his crime," said Dunn.

Karbassi said this year's fig of victims is astir the aforesaid arsenic past year, but helium anticipates the fig of victims to turn earlier the extremity of the year.

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