Two hit by car on Fairfield Ave.

Source: Connecticut Post, BridgeportSept.文件倉 05--BRIDGEPORT -- A sedan hit two women crossing Fairfield Avenue on Wednesday, leaving one motionless in the street and the other wailing in pain as medical personnel brought her into an ambulance.Witnesses said an older, gray Chevrolet sedan took a right turn from Clinton Avenue onto Fairfield Avenue at a high rate of speed and collided with the two women as they crossed Fairfield.Both women suffered "significant" injuries, said city police spokesman William Kaempffer, adding that the driver stopped immediately after the crash and cooperated with investigators."He came around that corner ... like he was on a racetrack," said Freddy Trowell, who was walking on Fairfield Avenue when the crash occurred.Trowell said the impact with the car threw the two women -- he estimated them to be in their 20s -- into the air, and they landed within a few feet of each other."They went in the air and they went to the ground like dirt," he said.One of the women lay motionless and silent, Trowell said. The other wailed in pain, continuing even as medical personnel closed the doors of an ambulance to take her to the hospital."She kept saying 'Don't touch me,' " Trowell said.One woman was transported to St. Vincent's Medical Center and the other to Bridgeport Hospital, Kaempffer said. He described their injuries as "significant," but further details about the women's conditions or identities were not available Wednesday. Kaempffer said paramedics also estimated the women to be in either their late teens or early 20s.The Chevrolet remained at the scene after the crash, a pair of spiderweb cracks visible on its windshield and a large dent on the driver's side of the hood. The Bridgeport Police Department's Serious Accident Investigation Team responded to the scene to document the crash, Kaempffer said.The incident marked the fifth incident in which a vehicle either seriously injured or killed a pedestrian in Bridgeport since April 30, when a car hit 2-year-old Corey Gordon on Capitol Avenue and fled the scene. The child suffered extensive injuries and the case remains open.Another small child, 6-year-old Diamond Battle, and the girl's 60-存倉ear-old aunt, Bettie Mae Smith, both suffered severe injuries when an SUV hit them as they crossed Washington Avenue on May 27. The driver in that incident also fled the scene and remains at large.Two of the crashes involving pedestrians this year proved fatal, the first coming on June 24, when a Cadillac struck 62-year-old Thomas Jacobs at Park Avenue and State Street. Jacobs later died in Bridgeport Hospital. The driver, Milton Dickens, cooperated with investigators and was not charged.On Aug. 5, a car struck Donald Denke, a 51-year-old contractor, as he loaded a small bucket loader onto a trailer at Old Town and Sunnydale roads. He died Sunday at St. Vincent's Medical Center.At least two more crashes this year involving pedestrians resulted only in minor injuries.The string of pedestrian-involved crashes led city police to increase traffic enforcement throughout the city, Kaempffer said. The incidents have also lent credence to a report recently issued by Allstate Insurance, which analyzed data among its policy holders in the country's 200 largest cities and found Bridgeport to be the 11th most dangerous for motorists among them. Allstate accounts for 10 percent of the country's auto policies."One is too much," Councilwoman M. Evette Brantley, D-132, said of the spate of pedestrians struck in Bridgeport.Brantley visited the scene of Wednesday's crash, which is in her district, after learning about it from a reporter."You can't drive on a city street as if you're on a highway," she said.That's how Kenny Abraham, a nearby resident, described the stretch of Fairfield Avenue where the two-lane, one-way road curves west to southwest at Clinton Avenue and vehicles catching the intersection's green light routinely speed through."It's like a highway over here," said Abraham, 30, adding that he feels more street lights and perhaps an additional traffic light should be installed in the area.Staff Writer Brian Lockhart contributed to this report.domalley@ctpost.com, @domalleyctpost, 203-330-6230Copyright: ___ (c)2013 the Connecticut Post (Bridgeport, Conn.) Visit the Connecticut Post (Bridgeport, Conn.) at .ctpost.com Distributed by MCT Information Services迷你倉