#6 Most Viewed Article of 2014: “Deadly Weekend: One Pedestrian and One Cyclist Are Dead, Another Pedestrian Is Critically Injured”
2014 Look Back: This article was originally published on July 28, 2014. It was the 6th most viewed Bike Delaware article of 2014.
Three crashes over the weekend left one pedestrian and one cyclist dead and another pedestrian critically injured.
Joanne “Jo-Jo” Johnson, 67, a long-time employee at the News Journal, was struck by a minivan and killed Friday afternoon west of New Castle as she tried to cross Dupont Highway (US 13) just north of the US 13/US 40 split. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
In a facebook posting, a friend of Ms. Johnson’s wrote that “she loved her 2 boys more than her own life. With each grandchild she grew happier and happier. She had 8, 3 granddaughters and 5 grandsons. She walked everywhere she needed to get to.”
On Saturday evening at about 8:30PM, Eloy Sandoval, 44, of Newark, was trying to cross Route 273 (Ogletown Road) east of Newark was struck and killed by a car. The motorist was approaching Ruthar Drive when he lost control of the car, the car left the roadway and entered the center median, rotated counter-clockwise and then continued into the intersection where the cyclist was struck.
On Sunday morning at about 11AM, a pedestrian was struck on Foulk Road in the Brandywine Hundred area north of Wilmington. He was rushed to Christiana Hospital where he was admitted in critical condition.
Between a quarter and a third of all traffic fatalities in Delaware are pedestrians and cyclists.
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