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South End Traffic Incidents Spur Efforts to Prioritize Pedestrian Safety

By: Phil Manzano, South Seattle Emerald

3/9/2023

Trigger Warning …

This article includes video and discussion of a vehicle-pedestrian collision.

Taken from a camera mounted above the intersection of Rainier Avenue and Graham Street South, the high-angle traffic video has a grainy, gray quality but still reveals much. The streets are dry. It’s about 1:30 p.m. on Jan. 25, and an eastbound silver Lexus coupe is turning left as three people — a mother and her two children — are walking across Rainier.

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