Lincoln neighborhood working to make intersection safer after numerous accidents

LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN) – A 42-year-old was crossing south 10th Street on Friday night when he was hit by a vehicle. He later died from those injuries.

Rosina Paolini, the vice president of the Indian Village Neighborhood Association, said people take chances all the time at the intersection.

“We have a bunch of apartments that are just to the south of us,” Paolini said. “I see groups of kids between the ages of five and ten race across the intersection, usually after school. They’ve made it across so far. It’s a little sketchy.”

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The neighborhood association has been trying to implement a safer way to cross the street for over a year.

And according to the association, there’s many factors they’ve studied that lead to the area being so dangerous.

“The observations that we have documented are usually long waits at 10th and High, especially to take a left turn,” Paolini said. “There’s a real lack of visibility from the south and the north. And the speed, although it is listed at 40 mph, it is more like 50 mph that the people are actually traveling.”

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This isn’t the first time someone has died in a crash at this intersection.

Back in 2020, two crashes happened within a few months of each other, with a 21-year-old motorcyclist killed after colliding with a pickup truck.

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A memorial for him is still at the intersection today.

Paolini told Channel 8 that LPD compiled a map to show the number of crashes that have occurred on south 10th street in the past few months.

Courtesy: Lincoln Police Department

She said the neighbors will not stop until the community is safer.

“The collaboration between the city and the neighborhood association,” she said. “And then to be able to spread that information throughout our neighbors or other neighborhood associations that might want to conduct a walk audit was really empowering because now we have a tool to be able to assess whether our places to public areas are safe or not.”