Accident

Raises Questions

To the Editor:

As a resident of Newtown who lives on Queen Street, I would like to have some questions answered about the event which took place on the evening of Wednesday, October 17, 2007:

Is the child who was hit by a car and left hurt in the road on Queen Street OK?

Have the police caught the person who hit the child on Queen Street but did not stop, leaving him in the road to be hit again? If not, what is being done to identify and apprehend this person?

Is anything going to be done in response to the numerous traffic meetings about dangerous traffic conditions on Queen Street? Or are we still going to be told we are looking for special treatment when we ask for measures to improve pedestrian safety and slow down traffic to within the speed limit?

Now that there is tangible (and tragic) evidence that the numerous complaints that have been raised about the dangerous conditions on Queen Street are well-founded, how is the Town of Newtown going to fulfill its responsibility to protect not only the quality of life of its residents but in fact their very lives?

Every resident who uses the roads in Newtown is at one time or another as vulnerable as the child who was hit on the night of October 17.

Vicki Boccuzzi

61 Queen Street, Newtown                                         October 22, 2007

(Editor’s note: Connecticut’s privacy laws protecting minors precluded the Newtown police and local hospitals from releasing the name or medical condition of the victim of the October 17 hit-and-run on Queen Street. See the follow-up story on the accident on page A4 this week.)