In response to a number of fatal crashes, Fayetteville officials have launched a new initiative to make city streets safer for everyone.
The effort, called Safe Streets for All (SS4A), comes after the city secured more than half a million dollars in grant funding. Local officials hope the plan will help curb the persistent problem of car accidents, which claimed more than 600 lives from 2019 to 2023, an average of one deadly crash every two days.
For people like Lorraine Anderson, the issue is deeply personal. Anderson lost her son, Dameion, in a wreck just four months ago. “It wasn’t a day that went by that he didn’t make me laugh. It’s been very hard,” Anderson said, recalling the morning she learned of his death after waking up to three missed calls from the hospital…