Family Wants Safety Modifications Added To Intersection Where 8th Grader Was Killed
The family of Kaylah Lentine, 14, who was hit by a pickup truck and killed crossing the intersection of Southwest Highway and Cicero Avenue in May, are petitioning the village for safety modifications that may have saved Kaylah's life.
There was a lot that Krista Wilkinson didn’t know about her 14-year-old daughter, Kaylah Lentine, until after she died. Subscribe to the Oak Lawn Patch newsletter and breaking news alerts. Wilkinson didn’t know that Kaylah wrote poetry until her friend Marty showed her where Kaylah had hidden the poems in her bedroom. She didn’t know that Kaylah had tried to volunteer for an organization that helped abused children, only to be told she was too young. And Wilkinson didn’t know that Kaylah had set up profiles on a variety of literary websites. “I had no idea that she wrote poetry,” Wilkinson said. “There were 25 to 30 poems in her room, Marty said five or six were about him.” “She had so many interests,” Wilkinson’s fiancé, Bob Nelson, said…
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5:57 am on Friday, July 13, 2012
I agree with Jerry. A pedestrian bridge and a connecting elevator for the handicap people would be a great idea. They have such bridges with elevators all over the world in major cities, and the accident rate is non existent. Better spend our tax money on safety of our citizens than have the politicians steal it for their benefit. more ›