Yellow Traffic Arrows Installed At Palms Intersection After Pedestrian Killed In Crosswalk
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — The death of a teenager with autism has led to changes at the Los Angeles Department of Transportation.
For the first time, it has installed a flashing yellow right-turn light to warn drivers to doublecheck the crosswalk.
David Lindley was killed in November while walking across the five-point intersection of Venice and Robertson boulevards in Palms on his way to Hamilton High school.
For the first time, yellow right-turn arrows are flashing in L.A.
LADOT recently posted a YouTube video to explain how the lights work.
A flashing yellow arrow means turning vehicles need to yield to pedestrians in the crosswalk.
Lindley's older sister, Cheeane Bryant, wishes the roadway had been made safer before he was killed.
"We can't get him back," Bryant told CBS2/KCAL9. "To see that it's saving other lives, I can take that. But that will never replace that life."
"For me and my family, there's nothing that can be enough," her brother said.
Lindley's family shot a video of the light turning red while the pedestrian signal was still counting down. They took their concerns to transportation officials, who told them the signals were working as designed.
LADOT plans to install more flashing yellow arrow lights throughout the city, although it's not clear when or where.
Pedestrians tell CBS2/KCAL9 they hope the city gets gets drivers up to speed.
"With this combined in conjunction with a campaign, I think that would really kind of seal the deal," pedestrian Gabriel Hill said.
