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A woman and child were hit by a car in Quincy on Tuesday morning. Accident scene location exclusive Quincy Quarry News image
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A Quincy mother and her child hit by a car while crossing the street in a crosswalk to catch a school bus.
The ever-increasingly mean streets of Quincy continue to become even meaner.
The South Shore broadsheet reported that the mother and her second-grader were hit by a car while in a crosswalk at the intersection of Washington and Elm Streets at about 8 AM Tuesday morning.
Both were said to have been taken to area hospitals and thus apparently separately.
Apparently the caution sign for solar glare was also obscured by solar glare
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The driver told police that solar glare contributed to the crash.
At the same time, however, apparently no comment about perhaps also speeding at a point along Washington known for both speeding vehicles as well as numerous such pedestrian strikings, including a fatal one of an older man by a careless driver as well as right in front of a handful of grammar school children waiting for a school bus.
The City of Quincy has upgraded driver warning signage for this intersection, however, it continues to regularly suffer both pedestrian hittings and strictly vehicular accidents on a regular basis.
Washington/Elm Streets August 2021 accident
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For example, just three weeks ago.
When the City of Quincy might opt to upgrade safety measures at this clearly dangerous intersection, however, remains to probably not be seen.
Source: Quincy mother and child hit by a car on walk to school bus stop
STANDARD traffic lights, with a button for pedestrians wishing to cross the street, are long overdue at this intersection. This is, as noted in the story, a dangerous spot and has a history of vehicular mayhem.
And as a secondary benefit, installing traffic lights and associated infrastructure would provide the city with yet another subject on which to exercise its painting and repainting skills as needed or desired.