To the editor: On Thursday, in unincorporated L.A. County, a driver was able to speed at an estimated 100 mph and kill at least six people.
. This particular incident is incredible in scope of disaster and lives lost, but it’s not something that happened in a vacuum. Every day in Los Angeles, especially in South L.A., there are car crashes, speeding and street takeovers.
We can design better streets, take away traffic lanes and add dedicated bike and bus lanes. Add bollards. Add trees and curb bulbs. We can turn on speed governors in our cars. The Mercedes-Benz that killed all those people wasn’t just a Mercedes-Benz. There was a person driving it who, for whatever reason, decided not to stop at the light and put all those lives at risk.
What I can’t stop thinking about is how often we drive through that intersection. It’s just pure chance that those people were at the intersection when the Mercedes-Benz killed them all. Driving in Los Angeles, it is pure chance that any of us survives a drive to the grocery store or work.
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