The death of a husband and wife in separate crashes at the same intersection is renewing a battle for traffic calming in the Denver area — and sparking conversation about why multiple people have to die before communities take action to calm dangerous roads.
Gerry Goldberg, 82, made headlines across America last month when he was killed in a two-car crash at the corner of East Belleview and South Franklin in metro Denver, just a block and a half from his home — the exact same place where a different driver had killed his wife Andie, 59, while she was on a morning run in 2024.
Many journalists and even the victims’ own families mourned the Goldergs’ eerily similar deaths as a tragic coincidence straight out of a “science fiction” novel. But local advocates say that it shouldn’t be surprising that multiple people lost their lives at the intersection of a five lane, 35-mile per hour arterial like Belleview and a sleepy residential road like Franklin — even if it is terrifying that the specific people who died were husband and wife…