According to houstonpolice, there have been nearly 21,000 hit-and-run crashes in Houston this year. KPRC2Zach has more on this: traffic kprc2 click2houston htx hounews hpd
According to the family of Jerry Young, the 68-year-old man and father of two died Friday, Sept. 16 while attempting to cross Westheimer Road in Houston.
“It was dark. They hit him. Why didn’t they just stop? Why did they have to drag him for a mile and destroy him that way? That was so disrespectful, he’s a human being,” said Jerilynn Johns, the mother of Jerry’s children. “He served in the military in the 70s. He was stationed in Korea and Germany.”“The mourning process I can feel a piece of my heart is gone,” said Johns. “Jerry was my first love. I met him when I was 16 and we married in 1980, had two children, Jana and Jeffry.
Throughout his life, he struggled with mental illness and substance abuse and was homeless at times, according to his family. According to Houston Police Department, there have been nearly 21,000 hit-and-run crashes in Houston this year. Of those, more than 85% have been solved. The person who hit Jerry has not been found.“We believe justice should be served and finding the person is where justice begins.”shows the streets where the most serious crashes happened. These streets are called high-injury networks. Most are in lower-income communities.
According to the city of Houston, 1.3 miles of roadway within the High Injury Network had safety improvements in 2021. This makes up less than 1% of those roads.Copyright 2022 by KPRC Click2Houston - All rights reserved.
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