Brooklyn neighbors renew decade-long push for speed bump. Here's why they want it.

"It has been 16 years since her son, Gary Louis, lost his leg and underwent multiple surgeries after a speeding driver plowed into him as he was putting his own child into a car seat. "My left leg was cut off. Right leg was broken in three places. So I was in a hospital for two months and rehab and for at least eight months," said Gary Louis, who now uses a prosthetic leg."

""It's disheartening that, you know, something so simple can't just be implemented because, you know, it would change lives," Gary Louis said. His neighbor, Karen Baio, says the community has been pushing for change since his accident. "You're seeing speed bumps up there, speed bumps there," she said, pointing to neighboring streets. "Why are you missing our block, when we really need it here? This is the block -- when they're coming off a speed bump, they come flying down," Baio said."

"Neighbors on a quiet block in the Flatlands section of Brooklyn they've been fighting for a speed bump for more than a decade, arguing that reckless drivers continue to put residents at risk. Accidents that led to a call to action Elsie Louis pointed to a dent in a pole on East 57th Street between Avenues L and M as a reminder of what she calls the scariest day of her life. "He ripped his leg off. He changed his life forever," she recalled."

Neighbors on a quiet Flatlands block in Brooklyn have pursued a speed bump for more than a decade to address persistent speeding. A speeding driver plowed into Gary Louis as he secured his child in a car seat, amputating his left leg, breaking his right leg in three places, and causing months of hospitalization and rehabilitation; he now uses a prosthetic leg. Residents report ongoing reckless driving and note speed bumps on neighboring streets while their block lacks one. A walker was killed by a speeding driver in 2012. A petition was submitted but denied by the city, which cited too many driveways.

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