Man that dbag on the cellphone needs to have his license taken away. I hope his insurance doesn't cover this and he will have to pay every penny out of his pocket. Just pathetic.
Krushelnicki was waiting to turn left at the intersection, so he pulled up a bit further, hoping the man driving the Pontiac would notice him or the other vehicles stopped at the crosswalk.
The driver didn’t.
Krushelnicki said it looked like the man was distracted by a cellphone.
“He didn’t have any attention to the crosswalk and the kids,” Krushelnicki said. “I was quite sure he was going to hit them.”
Police responded to the crash at 4:25 p.m., police spokesman Scott Pattison said Tuesday. Witnesses told traffic investigators that the driver of a 2007 Pontiac G5 was talking on his cellphone while speeding north on 83rd Street from 82nd Avenue, toward the crosswalk.
The Pontiac was going faster than 80 km/h, Pattison said. When a crosswalk’s lights are flashing the maximum speed allowed is 30 km/h.