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OTTAWA – A 17-year-old girl was killed after being struck by a vehicle on Eagleson Road near the Queensway Monday morning. Paramedics said they responded to the call at 10:24 a.m. in the area near the highway on-ramp and the OC Transpo Park and Ride. The girl taken to hospital with critical, life-threatening injuries, they said.
Kanata commuters who use the park-and-ride system near where a teenage girl was killed on Monday say the area can be dangerous, with pedestrians and traffic often at odds.
A 17-year-old girl was fatally injured when she was struck by a pickup truck travelling north on Eagleson Road near the Park and Ride just before the Queensway on-ramp. She was taken to hospital with serious injuries following the 10:24 a.m. accident, but died about two hours later.
Police closed the northbound lanes of Eagleson between Katimivik and the Queensway while investigating the accident. As of late Monday evening, they had not released the name of the dead girl.
Emely Weselowski said she was about to cross Eagleson herself at the time of the accident. She said she had a big suitcase with her, however, and decided not to cross when she realized she would have only about 10 seconds to make it across the road. Others were ahead of her, though, already part of the way across the road, she said.
Weselowski said she then looked down at her mobile phone for a moment.
“As I looked up, I just happened to see the truck strike the girl and (another) guy.”
The second person was not seriously hurt, she said.
“He walked away.”
Weselowski said she saw a nurse, in uniform, come to the girl’s aid. “It was devastating when I got to the train station and found out she died.”
The area is one with heavy traffic volume during both the morning and afternoon rush hours, with vehicles either either coming off the Queensway or trying to get on the Queensway. As well, numerous buses travel back and forth through the area.
Regular commuters say it is common to see pedestrians rushing across Eagleson against the traffic lights as they try to catch buses or get to their vehicles after getting off a bus.
“Every day I see people doing that,” said James Campbell, a Carleton University student who uses the park-and-ride system daily. “Lots of people walk through the red light even if they see cars coming, but think they can make it. It just makes me cringe.”
Calla Brisbrin, who works at a nearby store, said the Monday accident was a much discussed topic at her office, with several people suggesting it was time to install a pedestrian footbridge across Eagleson Road.
“It’s really a long light (at the intersection of Eagleson and the Park and Ride location), and you see a lot of people who don’t wait for the light,” she said. “They see their bus coming and they run across.”
Irene Rogers, a Munster resident who regularly uses the Park and Ride, said the “Walk/Don’t Walk” signals that allow people to cross Eagleson to and from the Park and Ride area aren’t timed to coincide with the traffic lights.
She noted, for example, that pedestrians might have a green light favouring them, but the “Don’t Walk” symbol doesn’t change to “Walk” right away. “People see the light is green but the Don’t Walk signal is still against them,” Rogers said. “They don’t want to wait, so they rush across anyway. It gets dangerous.”
Police say the area doesn’t have a particularly bad reputation for accidents. Police spokesman Const. Marc Soucy said the area where Monday’s accident occurred had not been identified as a major accident site despite the high volume of traffic along Eagleson.
Likewise, Kanata Councillor Marianne Wilkinson said she wasn’t aware of a lot of accidents having occurred in that particular area. Still, she acknowledged it could be hazardous.
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Kanata commuters who use the park-and-ride system near where a teenage girl was killed on Monday say the area can be dangerous, with pedestrians and traffic often at odds.
A 17-year-old girl was fatally injured when she was struck by a pickup truck travelling north on Eagleson Road near the Park and Ride just before the Queensway on-ramp. She was taken to hospital with serious injuries following the 10:24 a.m. accident, but died about two hours later.
Police closed the northbound lanes of Eagleson between Katimivik and the Queensway while investigating the accident. As of late Monday evening, they had not released the name of the dead girl.
Emely Weselowski said she was about to cross Eagleson herself at the time of the accident. She said she had a big suitcase with her, however, and decided not to cross when she realized she would have only about 10 seconds to make it across the road. Others were ahead of her, though, already part of the way across the road, she said.
Weselowski said she then looked down at her mobile phone for a moment.
“As I looked up, I just happened to see the truck strike the girl and (another) guy.”
The second person was not seriously hurt, she said.
“He walked away.”
Weselowski said she saw a nurse, in uniform, come to the girl’s aid. “It was devastating when I got to the train station and found out she died.”
The area is one with heavy traffic volume during both the morning and afternoon rush hours, with vehicles either either coming off the Queensway or trying to get on the Queensway. As well, numerous buses travel back and forth through the area.
Regular commuters say it is common to see pedestrians rushing across Eagleson against the traffic lights as they try to catch buses or get to their vehicles after getting off a bus.
“Every day I see people doing that,” said James Campbell, a Carleton University student who uses the park-and-ride system daily. “Lots of people walk through the red light even if they see cars coming, but think they can make it. It just makes me cringe.”
Calla Brisbrin, who works at a nearby store, said the Monday accident was a much discussed topic at her office, with several people suggesting it was time to install a pedestrian footbridge across Eagleson Road.
“It’s really a long light (at the intersection of Eagleson and the Park and Ride location), and you see a lot of people who don’t wait for the light,” she said. “They see their bus coming and they run across.”
Irene Rogers, a Munster resident who regularly uses the Park and Ride, said the “Walk/Don’t Walk” signals that allow people to cross Eagleson to and from the Park and Ride area aren’t timed to coincide with the traffic lights.
She noted, for example, that pedestrians might have a green light favouring them, but the “Don’t Walk” symbol doesn’t change to “Walk” right away. “People see the light is green but the Don’t Walk signal is still against them,” Rogers said. “They don’t want to wait, so they rush across anyway. It gets dangerous.”
Police say the area doesn’t have a particularly bad reputation for accidents. Police spokesman Const. Marc Soucy said the area where Monday’s accident occurred had not been identified as a major accident site despite the high volume of traffic along Eagleson.
Likewise, Kanata Councillor Marianne Wilkinson said she wasn’t aware of a lot of accidents having occurred in that particular area. Still, she acknowledged it could be hazardous.
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