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Police reopened a portion of McBride Avenue in Woodland Park after a pedestrian was struck Tuesday afternoon. This is the same street where a crossing guard was struck and killed Monday afternoon.
Flowers lay at the corner of McBride and Lackawanna avenues, where 80-year-old Jean Schultz worked as a crossing guard. Police said she was crossing two kids Monday around 3:30 p.m. when they were all hit.
The two children are said to be OK. Schultz died at the hospital. The driver in that crash remained on the scene.
The same stretch of McBride Avenue was closed again Tuesday afternoon when police said another pedestrian was struck - a 40-year-old Woodland Park resident running across the road from the car wash to the gas station. He was taken to the hospital, and police said he was in stable condition.
There is no crosswalk on this part of the road.
Tuesday's closure marked consecutive days this week where the road was closed for a police investigation at the same time of day - and residents have concerns over the intersection.
“Sometimes people are speeding," said Lindsay Seaborn, a teacher at nearby Beatrice Gilmore Elementary. "They're not paying attention to the children. They're not keeping in mind that this is a school area.”
There are middle and elementary schools half a mile up McBride Avenue.
“We never had that much traffic like now," said resident Adrian Franco. "Now with the Amazon [warehouse] and all this new business.”
The borough just last year added pedestrian walk signs with push buttons and left turn lights to this intersection in an effort to improve safety.