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NYC Council Member, District 29. Health Committee Chair. Progressive activist, healthcare policy advocate, and LGBTQ+🏳️‍🌈 leader.

$Imagine if these were your children. Six and seven years old. Crossing the street with the walk signal. Doing exactly what we teach our children to do. And then, in a moment, everything changes. On September 28, two children were struck by an SUV at 70th Avenue and Metropolitan Avenue in Forest Hills. One suffered a fractured skull. As parents, we teach our children to look both ways, follow the signals, and trust the rules that are supposed to keep them safe. We tell them that the crosswalk is where they have the right of way. But what are we supposed to tell them when they do everything right and still get hurt? According to the evidence we’re highlighting in this video, the driver ran a red light. Yet the driver received only a summons, disputing that account and claiming to have had the green light. Where is the accountability when children are put in danger? This is bigger than one intersection. It’s about whether families can trust that the rules protecting pedestrians will mean something when those rules are violated. No parent should have to wonder whether their child will make it safely across the street. No child should have to pay the price for a driver’s actions. We need real accountability. We need safer crossings. We need meaningful action before another family experiences this nightmare. 💚💛 Parents, neighbors, and everyone who believes our children deserve better: please stand with us. Sign the petition. Share this post. Help us demand change. 🔗 https://tinyurl.com/FHSaferStreetsPetition Safer Streets for Forest Hills. Because every child deserves to get home safely.$

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