The Tribune reports a Rogers Park man was struck and killed by a car Thursday night while walking across a dark stretch of road in north suburban Skokie. The accident happened about 7:30 p.m. in the 3900 block of Golf Road, near the Springfield Avenue intersection, Skokie Police Sgt. Thomas Crowley said.
Jaime Villanueva, 44, was in the middle of the road when he was struck by a Honda Accord westbound on Golf, Crowley said.
The driver stopped at the scene but did not know what he had hit. "The driver said he didn't see him before he hit him," Crowley said. There were no other witnesses and police were still trying to determine why Villanueva was in the road.
Crowley said there is no crosswalk where the accident occurred and it can be difficult to see. "It's very dark in that area at night," he said.
Villanueva, of the 1600 block of West Farwell Avenue, in Chicago's Rogers Park community, was pronounced dead at 9:08 p.m. Thursday at Evanston Hospital, a Cook County medical examiner's office spokesman said. An autopsy was scheduled for this morning. No citations had been issued to the driver, Crowley said.
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In the wrong hands, cars, like guns, can kill. Should we ban all cars in Chicago?
People need to realize that when they are crossing the street AT NIGHT in a SNOW STORM... not everyone can see them. Especially if they are wearing dark colored clothes.
I have no idea of the Exact details... but it pisses me off to see people, SOME WITH CHILDREN, cross the street only half way and wait in the middle of the intersection for a 'break' to dash across the rest of the way. What are the thinking? If a truck or car were to lose control in the snow or rain... they'd be toast.
Is it worth your Life or injury to do stupid things like that?
Another thing to realize is that:
Just because the light has turned RED for traffic doesn't mean EVERYONE can stop or has control to stop in the Snow or Rain. Cars can slide on Ice or Rain. My mother would makes us WAIT until all the cars were completely stopped at the light to cross in front of them. Especially in Bad Weather.
She was smart, and aware.
Automobiles' primary function includes transport of people and goods and provides a host of other societal benefits. Unfortunately, sometimes automobiles accidentally kill and or injure. If you do an analysis of use of automobile for its primary purposes vs. death, that ratio of "deaths to use" is considerably lower than a similar ratio for guns - whose primary function is to maim and or kill. Unless you're part of a well-regulated militia - guns should be left to the big boys.
Guns are designed ONLY to kill or maim, while a car is meant for beneficial purposes.
I'm baffled that people abide being required to register automobiles but scream about their "rights" when we try to impose meaningful registration requirements?
Why would anyone want their guns not to be traceable, unless they meant to do harm with them?
If you must answer for your car, you should sure as hell have to answer for what happens with your gun.
Too bad about our poor neighbor. catherine on eastlake makes good points about pedestrian safety in her post, especially about not assuming the crosstraffic will stop at the crosswalk just because you have the walk light and they have a red light.
What I want to know is, why didn't joe moore put in a street light there!@? This is all his fault, right?
DBT.... Where in the post does it mention Joe Moore or fault of anykind? AND didn't this event take place in Skokie?
DBT... Are you OK? Maybe you need more rest.
Some people in RP are so obsessed with Joe Moore, that even when no one mentions his name- they are sure he is being talked about. It's a sad state to be in for those poor poor souls.
Craig is simply trying to let those of us who knew Mr. V. know what happened to him.
CG may also be reasonbly suggesting that a car in the hands of an irresponsible idiot can be just as significant a weapon as a gun.
Drive safely, folks.
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