LA City Council seeks more speed humps and crossing guards after mom is killed walking child to school

A day after a mother walking her 6-year-old daughter to school was killed by a speeding driver,  a Los Angeles City Council committee advanced a measure on Wednesday to install speed humps at all schools in the city, the news site MyNewsLA reported.

The Tuesday morning accident in the city’s Mid-Wilshire area near the Hancock Park Elementary School left the 6-year-old in critical condition. An assistant police chief told the Los Angeles Times the accident was “a tragedy beyond anybody’s imagination.”

Wednesday, the City Council’s transportation committee moved quickly to address traffic around schools.

“We have to do the work to ensure that the safety of our children, our mothers, fathers and grandparents are the priority. I want to use every tool in our toolbox to ensure that the safety of our people take precedence over traffic time,” said Councilmember Heather  Hutt, the committee’s chair.

The committee approved a measure for the establishment of a dedicated speed hump program for all schools in the city. The committee also approved a separate but related motion seeking to bolster the city’s crossing guard program, MyNewsLA reported. The city has roughly 200 vacant crossing guard positions.