The city of Renton will be implementing traffic safety measures around Sartori Elementary School to increase pedestrian safety during school hours.
The north Renton community has had growing concerns for the safety of kids and parents around Sartori Elementary School after a woman was struck by a car while crossing a nearby street last year.
“I am also a parent of two small kids, one who attends Sartori. Last spring, my five-year-old daughter and one-year-old son witnessed a mother from our Sartori community being hit by a truck while she was crossing the crosswalk on Park and 4th. This is the crosswalk that my family uses multiple times a week for school dropoff and pickup,” Anissa Gastine said at the Feb. 2 Renton City Council meeting. “As a parent, I had to explain to my children why someone that they saw injured and bleeding in the street might not be OK, and why I could not confidently promise that they would be safe walking to school moving forward. This is not a conversation any parent should have to have with their children.”…