By: Russell Keener  —  February 20, 2012
 

As Rome, GA injury attor­neys we see far too many acci­dents involv­ing pedes­tri­ans on the streets of Rome and other places such as Mari­etta and Cartersville.

But an acci­dent that occurred on Feb. 17, 2012, in which a woman was hit by sev­eral vehi­cles on Shorter Avenue in Rome, is par­tic­u­larly shocking.

Ernie Stu­dard, the Floyd County Deputy Coro­ner, said that Cather­ine Lynn Hand, a 22-year-old pedes­trian from Rome, was pro­nounced dead at the Floyd Med­ical Cen­ter Emer­gency Room in the early hours of Feb. 18, 2011, the Rome News-Tribune reported.  The News-Tribune reported she was hit by mul­ti­ple vehi­cles just before mid­night on Feb. 17, as she attempted to cross Shorter Avenue in West Rome.

“A semi truck trav­el­ing east­bound on Shorter Avenue crested a hill just before Shorter Indus­trial Boule­vard and struck her in the road­way,” the News-Tribune reported.

The impact of the col­li­sion knocked the woman into the west­bound lane of traf­fic where she was struck by another vehi­cle. She was then hit twice more by oncom­ing traffic.

Although the facts of the Rome death are not yet fully known, our expe­ri­enced Mari­etta injury lawyers are con­cerned about a series of pedes­trian deaths in Georgia.

On Octo­ber 23, 2011 we reported on the death of a female pedes­trian in DeKalf County. She was struck and killed by a Jeep Chero­kee on More­land Avenue and Con­sti­tu­tion Drive. 

As expe­ri­enced Rome, GA pedes­trian acci­dent attor­neys, we real­ize that many of these types of acci­dents are “hit and run” acci­dents in which the dri­ver of the vehi­cle leaves the scene of the crime. 

Dis­tracted dri­ving is also a sig­nif­i­cant cause of pedes­trian deaths. Dur­ing the last week of August, 2011, in Clay­ton County, GA three teens lost their lives after being hit by a car dri­ven by a woman who was under the influ­ence of anti-depressant drugs and was talk­ing on a cell phone.

In the wake of the impact 16-year-old Tony Bishop died on the road­side; 17-year-old Octavius Sor­rells died soon after being trans­ported to Grady Memo­r­ial Hos­pi­tal.  Tim­o­thy Aaron, 17, was also taken to Grady with a seri­ous brain injury where he died after being taken off of life support.

Police say the three teens were walk­ing in the emer­gency lane in an east­bound direc­tion near the inter­sec­tion of I-675 when they were hit by car dri­ven by 48-year-old Priscilla Dianne Johnson.

If you lost a loved one in a pedes­trian acci­dent you should con­tact an expe­ri­enced Rome, GA acci­dent injury lawyer.