Highway Patrol Reports Sobering News for Pedestrians
There were 43 fatal pedestrian traffic accidents in a seven-county area including Hillsborough County in 2012.
She simply was trying to catch the school bus to Guinta Middle School on Nov. 16. However, 13-year-old Andrea Bower’s dash across Bloomingdale Avenue during rush-hour traffic ended her life too soon. The teen was struck by a Ford SUV and dragged 20 feet. She later died at Tampa General Hospital. It’s tragedies such as this that is prompting the Florida Highway Patrol to urge increased vigilance on behalf of drivers and pedestrians during the coming year. In the past year, the FHP has investigated 331 traffic crashes involving pedestrians in a seven-county area. Of that number, 43 were fatal. Hillsborough, Pinellas and Pasco counties had the highest number of pedestrian fatalities this year in the seven-county area. There were 12 in …
