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SANGER, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – It's been 8 months since a car struck 2 students at a engaged intersection adjacent Sanger High School.
"This has to beryllium 1 of the busiest crossings, particularly erstwhile schoolhouse is around," a acrophobic national said.
The intersection of Bethel and Almond sits right successful betwixt Sanger High and Madison Elementary; 17-year-old Hubert Hsu and different pupil were crossing this intersection erstwhile they were deed by a car. Hubert died, and the different pupil was hospitalized. Sanger Police tell YourCentralValley.com both the operator and the students shared fault. The operator was not charged.
While the assemblage mourns his loss, it’s inactive waiting for improvements astatine that intersection to support it from happening again. Right now, lone Almond Avenue has halt signs, truthful the metropolis decided it would instal a four-way postulation light, arsenic good arsenic update the crosswalks.
The metropolis said backmost successful March that they would implicit the information betterment task this summer, but operation hasn’t started yet. Sanger City Manager Nathan Olson says they were waiting for the right-of-way acquisitions from Caltrans.
On Thursday, the metropolis opened the bid to find a contractor for the project. "I privation to accidental these projects person astir apt been connected the books for a mates of years, but it's conscionable benignant of waiting their crook successful enactment to get them done," Olson added.
The metropolis besides plans to adhd sidewalks to some sides of Almond from Bethel to Greenwood, truthful students won't person to locomotion successful the streets. Olson hopes to person the intersection completed by the extremity of the year, with the added sidewalks to Almond Avenue to follow.
As students caput into the caller schoolhouse year, the Sanger Police Department volition beryllium visiting schools to proceed its pedestrian information campaign. "I deliberation it's not paying attention. It's precise communal for students, adults, anybody these days to person their heads down connected their phones and not paying attraction to the surroundings," said Sanger Police Chief John Reynolds.
At the intersection, you'll inactive find tiny mementos that grant Hubert. "Hubert was an astonishing student. He was very, precise progressive successful robotics, engineering," said Kirstin Coronado, country superintendent astatine Sanger Unified.
A memorial assistance was created successful his sanction to enactment students heading to college. "It has implicit $13,000 of donations," Coronado shared. So far, three $1,000 scholarships person been awarded.
