Residents renew calls for safety improvements on Cresheim Valley Drive after fatal crash

Neighbors in the West Mount Airy section of Philadelphia are renewing calls for safety upgrades on Cresheim Valley Drive after a 56-year-old man was killed in a crash Sunday night.

Police said the driver lost control of his BMW, hit a downed guardrail and flipped into the creek below. Firefighters extricated him from the vehicle and rushed him to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. A tow truck later pulled the car from the creek.

“It is a little scary sometimes, people treat it like a raceway,” said Sam Lifson-Neubardt of West Mount Airy…

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