Edgers! On Saturday, August 13th, during our morning run group there was a terrible car crash on Third Avenue just before the bridge that goes over Highway 406. A young man was distracted on his phone and would have had to be travelling at a speed faster then 80 km/hr because he totalled his car and completely snapped a telephone pole at the base. The driver was lucky because the telephone pole crushed the car on the passenger side and no one was hurt.
Why are you sharing this coach? We continue to run down Third Ave as this is a great road that helps us get to the wonderful country roads for our long runs. I have been yelled at many times by passing drivers about our poor running conduct. I have witnessed many of you running 3 and 4 abreast down the middle of the road. This incident with the accident prompted me to reflect how lucky we were that none of our runners got hurt by this reckless driver.
Road safety tips!
Along with our own road safety concerns, the residents of Third Ave have been complaining to the city for many years about the speed that cars travel along this residential street. Some of you even signed a petition to help the residents out with this concern. Together with them we encourage you to write to the Ward 4 councillors expressing your concerns with any close calls they may have had in the past. Below are the names, addresses, and email addresses of the Ward 4 councillors. We need to encourage the city to become proactive on preventing speeding and wreckless driving on our residential roads.
Contact
Phone: 905.327.1763
Email: [email protected]
Mail: City of St. Catharines
PO Box 3012
50 Church St.
St. Catharines, ON
L2R 7C2
Contact
Phone: 905.329.8162
Email: [email protected]
Mail: City of St. Catharines
PO Box 3012
50 Church St.
St. Catharines, ON
L2R 7C2