Boston woman walking across a Brookline street is killed by motorist making a turn

Brookline Police report that Patricia Arelleno, 63, of Keswick Street successful Audubon Circle, was walking crossed Downing Road astatine Washington Street erstwhile a operator making a close crook from Washington onto Downing deed her astir 11:20 a.m. past Friday.

Police accidental she was transported to Beth Israel Hospital, wherever she died that night.

The relation of the centrifugal conveyance remained connected country and was afloat cooperative passim the investigation. She had been travelling connected Washington Street and turned close onto Downing Road erstwhile the mishap occurred. She was cited for nonaccomplishment to halt for a pedestrian successful a crosswalk.

Randy Parker, a adjacent nonmigratory discusses Arelleno's death and past efforts to get the municipality to bash thing astir postulation conditions on Washington Street betwixt the Brighton enactment and Beacon Street.

As galore know, the speeds connected Washington Street person been TOO HIGH FOREVER. A radical of america formed a postulation calming task successful the 1990s and spent a batch of time, got backing enactment from Sen Cindy Creem, but yet lone got precise tiny measures of postulation calming enacted.

We were thwarted successful doing more. We were told “Wash St is nether authorities jurisdiction”, “it’s a main artery”, etc. But these rules that blocked america tin nary longer instrumentality precedence implicit lives. We request to PROTECT PEOPLE FIRST.

If the laws accidental we can’t dilatory cars down, adjacent erstwhile the hazard has been evident to neighbors for decades, past the LAWS MUST CHANGE.

Compare to West Roxbury, where, aft an archetypal outcry implicit the decease of a pistillate walking crossed Centre Street successful 2019 led to demands to bash something, the metropolis wound up doing nothing aft immoderate residents became convinced the city's plans were a plot by extracurricular agitators and Big Bicycle. Those residents continue to fight their alleged outsider foes.