Hamilton police say a 14-year-old girl received life-threatening injuries after being hit by a vehicle while walking with friends on Saturday night.
Ambulances were called to Parkdale Avenue North and Rocksborough Avenue around 5:15 p.m., according to Dave Thompson, a superintendent from Hamilton Paramedic.
The teenager was taken to hospital in a “critical, life-threatening condition suffering from multisystem trauma,” he said.
Hamilton police say the teenager was walking with a group of friends on Parkdale when she was hit by a driver who then fled the area.
Investigators said they have since tracked the 2005 Nissan Quest, which was involved in the crash with the help of the public.
The driver, a 30-year-old woman from Hamilton, is accused of not staying at the scene of the collision, causing bodily harm, police said.
The collision is the latest in a recent series of accidents in which pedestrians have been killed or seriously injured.
The Hamilton police chief spoke of the wave of clashes, saying the service was aimed at speeding, aggressive drivers, distracted drivers and drivers who drink or use drugs behind the wheel.
“We are also targeting Hamilton’s top 10 intersections in an effort to reduce clashes and working closely with the City of Hamilton to implement road safety reform,” he said in a video posted online.
Sandy Shaw, MPP NDP for Hamilton West-Ancaster-Dundas, also wrote a letter to Provincial Transport Secretary Caroline Mulroney, calling for provincial action to prevent disasters.
“Municipalities like Hamilton need provincial support and funding to develop active transport plans that include the needs of pedestrians, cyclists and vulnerable road users,” she wrote in part.
The city is working to achieve the goal of zero deaths or serious injuries from 2019, wrote on Twitter the adviser of District 8 (West Central Mountains) John-Paul Danko. But “the recent tragic deaths of pedestrians show that more needs to be done,” he added.
Danko shared screenshots of a proposal he intends to present to the Hamilton Public Works Committee on Monday.
2022-04-30 17:47:22 Clash: #HamOnt
– @ hps_traffic
He notes that despite this goal, the number of fatal clashes on city streets has not slowed, pointing to eight pedestrian deaths as of April.
The proposal calls on the city’s strategic road safety committee to review annual statistics on collisions, “isolate specific hazards” for vulnerable road users and the transport unit to report to the commission on improving traffic rules and improving road safety for pedestrians and cyclists.
This comes after another collision over the weekend caused three serious injuries.
Police say a 21-year-old Hamilton man was driving a Volkswagen west on Hunter Street to the Queen Street South intersection around 11pm on Friday when he failed to orient himself at an intersection and crashed into a fence and concrete blocks.
“This caused significant damage to the vehicle and caused parts of the concrete blocks to fall on the railway tracks below,” police said in a press release.
The driver and two other 19-year-old men suffered serious injuries, including “torso trauma and spinal fractures,” according to investigators.
Police said they were unable to rule out any contributing factors. The Collision Recovery Department is continuing its investigation.
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