A Kent neighborhood is alarmed after two fatal accidents on the same street in less than three months. This comes as we learn the identity of the elderly woman struck and killed by a driver who took off .
We have been digging into how many accidents with serious injuries have happened on Central Avenue South in the last couple of years.
We counted at least five all along that busy roadway.
These accidents are having an impact on the people who live and work here.
A couple blocks north of where the elderly woman was killed, another person was killed.
It was the day before last Thanksgiving when 48-year-old bicyclist Jason Allen Coffin was struck and killed outside 802 Central Avenue South.
“I’m the general manager for the corporation,” said Yajaira Licona, who works for Chiropractor Physicians, Inc. “But I got a phone call letting me know there was someone who just got hit.”
Licona wasn’t working that sad day.
“They were calling me panicking because it was, you know, extreme scenario,” said Licona. “With a pile of blood and everything with someone laying down. I mean we have seen it all here.”