9 y/o killed on Highway

[AnimeSpirit]

I agree with TBelle. Parents need to watch their kids and adults need to remember how to cross the street properly. If they reduce the speed limit on that highway, guess what will happen....TRAFFIC JAMS!!! Try getting across the street then.

[Texasbelle]

This is a HIGHWAY where this incident happened. It's not just a road, it is a major highway (Hwy 1). Nobody should really be trying to cross the road here. It's just asking for an accident like this to happen. I travel this road about 3 times a week going to my trainer and also happened to live about an 1/8 mile from where this accident happened when I was in High School. These kids and people are trying to get to a convenience store located across the highway from the neighborhood and one of the apartment complexes. To me, they are all playing Russian roulette if they try to cross it. The only solution would be one of those over the highway crossings but why should this have to be done because people can't use common sense?

[AnimeSpirit]

I've seen such overpasses for on-foot traffic. They actually aren't a bad idea. However, I can't imagine the city government placing one for merely convenience store traffic. If there were a large shopping center across the street from a major housing area, then maybe, but not for a mere convenience store. It's a question of how much traffic crosses that road.

[joepole]

I wasn't even allowed to cross Line Ave. when I was 9 years old, and I lived on a cross street that had a traffic light and sidewalks!

[rhertz]

Originally Posted by joepole

I wasn't even allowed to cross Line Ave. when I was 9 years old, and I lived on a cross street that had a traffic light and sidewalks!

This is a true story. I grew up near you, and I wasn't allowed to cross my street either. In my back yard was a bayou, and there was 4 or 5 foot culvert that ran under my back yard, front yard, Gilbert, and into my across-the-street neighbors side yard.

It was a long tunnel with a slight bend so you could not see the other side from one end. But in the middle, we could see the light at both ends of the tunnel. The older kids traversed the tunnel without a sweat. I only made it a few times, it was a pretty scary trip to make at 7 or 8 years old. My parents eventually found out and put a quick stop to that!

[Pocahontas]

Growing up in a small town was so awesome! We road our Honda mini bikes all over the place up to the edge of the highway...stopped parked them, walked across the highway and then road motorcyles back home! We stayed out til dark and ran all over the neighborhoods til my mother "rang the bell" (I kid you not) to come in. We had this big old dinner bell that originally belonged to my great grandmother and we could hear it a mile away! I'm not a hick either....just a small town girl! I loved it!

[rhertz]

Originally Posted by Pocahontas

Growing up in a small town was so awesome! We road our Honda mini bikes all over the place up to the edge of the highway...stopped parked them, walked across the highway and then road motorcyles back home! We stayed out til dark and ran all over the neighborhoods til my mother "rang the bell" (I kid you not) to come in. We had this big old dinner bell that originally belonged to my great grandmother and we could hear it a mile away! I'm not a hick either....just a small town girl! I loved it!

LOL, as I grew older, we had Honda mini-trail 50's and 70's and bigger and bigger dirt bikes as time went on. By the time I was 12 or 13, I was riding wheelies down the street! It's a wonder I made it. Yes once I actually got hit by a car while I was on my dirt bike. No broken bones but lots of scrapes and bruises. Shreveport was not quite the small town I thought it was.

But those were different times back then. I remember riding to high school with my shotgun in the rear window of my pickup! Lot of us did. And then we went to gun club at school as an extracurricular activity after school. Nobody got hurt and nobody got arrested. Nowadays there seems to be a lot more of both. There is something to be said for learning some personal responsibility and common sense the hard way (as long as you survive to remember the lesson)

[piemaker720]

Originally Posted by Pocahontas

Growing up in a small town was so awesome! We road our Honda mini bikes all over the place up to the edge of the highway...stopped parked them, walked across the highway and then road motorcyles back home! We stayed out til dark and ran all over the neighborhoods til my mother "rang the bell" (I kid you not) to come in. We had this big old dinner bell that originally belonged to my great grandmother and we could hear it a mile away! I'm not a hick either....just a small town girl! I loved it!

I too came from a small town. We had a hiil behind our house that when it iced in the winter, instead of salting the roadway the mayor would have the town block the road on both ends so the kids could slid down. They used everything from baking pans to cardboard. It was nice because they thought of the kids. I have seen the kids in the winter take water out and pour on the road to freeze up. They were desperate, we don't get much snow here in Louisiana.