Cambridge council votes for safety review of Cedar Street after fatal crash
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Cambridge council has voted to request a pedestrian safety review of Cedar Street from the region after two back-to-back collisions last week, one of which killed a three-year-old girl.
“Something absolutely has to be done here,” said Cambridge Mayor Jan Liggett at a council meeting on Monday.
“It's just one of those really bad, bad roads in our community.”
Police were called to a plaza on Cedar Street near Osborne Street last Thursday afternoon for a report that pedestrians had been struck.
Two people were transported to a local hospital with serious, life-threatening injuries. A three-year-old girl died; a 31-year-old Cambridge woman sustained serious but non-life-threatening injuries.
One day later, police confirmed to CBC News a two-vehicle crash happened at Cedar Street and Osborne Street. One person was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries and a driver has been charged under the Highway Traffic Act, police said.
Cedar Street is a regional road, which means any changes would need to come from regional council.
At the meeting Monday, Cambridge councillors voted unanimously on a motion to request that the region direct regional staff to reduce the speed limit on Cedar Street, between Grand Ridge Drive and St. Andrews Street, to 40 km/h as “an immediate safety measure,” Liggett said.
The region is also being asked to “undertake as soon as possible a pedestrian safety review” of the same stretch of roadway.
Staff at the Region of Waterloo confirmed to CBC News they received the motion from Cambridge council and are "waiting on [police] to finish their investigation before determining next steps."
During Monday’s meeting, Liggett described going to the building where the girl attended daycare for a vigil and seeing the girl’s mother arrive.
“[It was] one of the hardest things I've ever had to do because the mother of that little girl and the father got out of a car while I was there. It was her first outing out of the hospital and it was very difficult. The trauma that they have gone through,” Liggett said.
The family of the girl who was killed is appealing to the public for help with funeral costs and to help her mother who was injured that day.
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