Gainesville community reflects on changes to traffic safety on University Avenue
When Fernando Ocon walks or drives to UF’s campus, he avoids University Avenue and takes another route. It’s an inconvenience, but he feels it may save his life.
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When Fernando Ocon walks or drives to UF’s campus, he avoids University Avenue and takes another route. It’s an inconvenience, but he feels it may save his life.
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Following recent crashes involving the deaths of UF students, local law enforcement and city leaders conducted a pedestrian safety operation Jan. 29 along West University Avenue.
Following the tragic loss of three UF community members to traffic crashes over the past two months, UF Student Government is planning traffic safety projects with the university and local and state governments.
A UF professor died following a crash on West University Avenue Monday afternoon.
After two UF students died following car crashes on West University Avenue in less than two months, city and police officials are taking steps to increase traffic safety on West University Avenue.
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“Do good, and say ‘I love you,’” is the phrase echoing through the UF community in honor of Sophia Lambert, a first-year UF theatre and psychology major who died Jan.16 after a fatal crash on West University Avenue that sent five others to the hospital. She was 18 years old.
The Gainesville Police Department will implement a traffic safety program after two UF students were killed by car crashes on West University Avenue less than two months apart.
Just over a month after a UF freshman was killed in a hit-and-run on West University Avenue, another five students were hit –– and one died –– after a crash on the road Saturday evening.
Following three hit-and-run crashes that killed two people and critically injured one in December, a UF Student Government Senator has plans to implement a traffic safety project this Spring.