Wheelchair user asks for more safety measures, attentive driving after getting hit twice
Sep 18, 2024, 8:00 AM | Updated: 4:00 pm
MIDVALE — A Midvale woman is pleading for more safety measures after she was hit by a car twice in her neighborhood.
Andrea Anderson lives off 700 East near 6856 S. There is no crosswalk for east-west crossing between Winchester Street and Fort Union Boulevard. She’s asking for one.
Anderson does use the Utah Transit Authority Paratransit system but said she likes to use her chair to get her around town to run errands.
She said she was hit Monday heading down 700 East on the sidewalk, in her power chair. She said a car rammed into her twice when she was passing an entrance to a condo complex.
“I was going to pass one of these feeder streets and there was a truck there, and I thought I made eye contact with her, and then I went to pass her, and then she rammed into me and backed up and rammed into me again,” Anderson said.
It’s not the only time.
In December of 2022, Anderson was left with several broken bones after a car hit her while she crossed 700 East. She said in that case, she couldn’t ride down the sidewalk on the east side of the street because of overgrown bushes in the way.
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