Focus back on road issues after student hit
Unsafe and inadequate roads are again spotlighted in the Keller school district after a student at Trinity Meadows Intermediate School was hit by a pickup this week while walking home from school.
He is the third student hit by a vehicle in the area in less than two years.
"It's a real tragedy the traffic issues still haven't been rectified," said Keller school Trustee Kevin Stevenson, whose daughter attends the same school. "We've been talking about the same issues for years."
The 11-year-old boy was crossing Keller-Hicks Road shortly before 3 p.m. Tuesday, about one-eighth mile west of the school, when a pickup hit him. School officials say the he was crossing outside a designated crosswalk.
The sixth-grader suffered several broken bones in his foot and was taken to the hospital by ambulance. He is expected to return to school today, district spokeswoman Shellie Johnson said.
Read more of Sarah Bahari's report here.
