Last week was a bad time for vehicle collisions.
On October 20th, at 1:00 AM, a black Mazda sedan hit a curb and flipped over in front of an office building at 235 King St. E. The occupant was taken to Grand River Hospital, but died. Waterloo Regional Police are treating the case as a homicide because of “suspicious” circumstances surrounding the incident: the driver had been engaged in an argument half an hour before the collision.
Then at 4:30 AM, a man with severe head trauma was discovered at Hazel Street and Austin Drive. He was pronounced dead on the scene. Police believe that he was struck by a red SUV.
Then at 7:00 AM on October 24th, an elderly pedestrian was killed by a pickup truck on Speedsville Road in Cambridge.
Interestingly, only 5795 collisions were reported in 2012: down from 6031 in 2011, and the lowest since 2009. The number of fatal collisions and collisions causing injury also decreased: f. Collisions involving pedestrians remained stable, but horse-and-buggy collisions increased 33% from 6 in 2011 to 8 in 2012.
King Street and University Avenue in Waterloo is the third-most dangerous intersection in the Region overall, and the worst for pedestrians: 11 pedestrians were hit by vehicles in the last five years.
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