Berkeley installed reflective flexible posts, no parking signs, and repainted red curbs, crosswalks, and other markings at Hopkins Street and Colusa Avenue after a driver struck a 13-year-old student biking home from Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School. The child did not require hospitalization; the driver remained at the scene and cooperated with police. Witnesses said a parked vehicle in a red-curbed zone obstructed the driver's view despite the driver stopping at a stop sign. Officials warned school staff that motorists should not stop in red zones or student loading areas. A separate fatal collision occurred Jan. 26 at Ada and California streets, where Elise B. Lusk, 66, was struck and extricated by the Berkeley Fire Department.
In the more recent collision, a 13-year-old student was biking home from school near Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School at Hopkins Street and Colusa Avenue when a driver struck him while crossing the intersection, according to an email newsletter from Councilmember Shoshana O'Keefe, whose district includes that area. The child was not hurt badly enough to require hospitalization and the driver stayed at the scene and cooperated with police, O'Keefe said.
Witnesses told The Berkeley Scanner, which reported on the crash last week, that the driver had come to a full stop at a stop sign at the intersection, but could not see the child entering the crosswalk because another driver had parked in a red-curbed zone. Berkeley has installed new reflective flexible posts and repainted red curbs to discourage improper parking near where a motorist struck a child at Hopkins Street and Colusa Avenue on Aug. 18.
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