ATLANTA — Families are fighting for a change at an intersection where several people have been hit by cars.
Police are still investigating after 58-year-old Anna Cole was hit and killed Thursday while waiting at a bus stop at the intersection of Pryor Road and Amal Drive.
Ke’Anna Shields, 21, was a month away from giving birth when she was hit and killed by a car while waiting at the same bus stop in May.
“The first one should have been enough. It shouldn’t have been a second one,” Cole’s son, Forlandos Jordan, said.
The victims’ families say that drivers coming down the hill cannot see the stop signs at the intersection and they lose control when they suddenly try to brake.
“I think a red light would do more help than that 4-way stop sign is doing,” Angela Shields, Ke’Anna’s mother, said.
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She said change is needed at the intersection sooner rather than later.
“Why did it take another person’s death for y’all to see how dangerous that 4-way stop sign is?” Shield said. “If nothing is done, it will be another life.”
Jordan agrees that two deaths at one intersection are just too many.
“The stop sign isn’t helping. Put a speed breaker or a red light or anything,” he said.
Police said the driver that killed Ke’Anna Shields had a medical emergency that led to the crash. No charges were filed.
Police say they anticipate filing charges against the driver in Thursday’s crash, 29-year-old Chaltu Ahmed.
Council President Ceasar Mitchell’s office said it will have a traffic engineer study the intersection to see what can be done to protect pedestrians.
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