Re: Safety Issue - Winding Hollow Lane (Small Children)Keith,
Really appreciate your email and concern for children. Thank you for
forwarding onto George and really look forward to a safer street.
Thanks
Tom
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On Apr 12, 2014, at 9:15 AM, Keith Marvin <KMarvin@coppelltx.gov
<mailto:KMarvin@coppelltx.gov> > wrote:
Tom,
Thanks for your email. As a parent of a young child myself I
can understand your concern. I’m glad to hear your son was not injured.
I’m copying George Marshall, our Traffic Engineer on this email.
George is the one that will respond to the request for additional
traffic calming measures. If you want to contact him directly, he can
be reached at 972-304-3562, but I expect he will contact you Monday or
Tuesday.
Thank you.
Keith Marvin, P.E.
Assistant Director of Public Works
Engineering Department
City of Coppell, TX
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From: Thomas Thakady [mailto:ctmthak@msn.com]
Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2014 12:29 AM
To: Keith Marvin
Subject: Safety Issue - Winding Hollow Lane (Small Children)
Good Evening Keith,
I really appreciate you coming out to our neighborhood,
listening to our concerns, and then addressing them very effectively.
Considering how you have quickly acted to resolve those issues, I need
to urgently request your help with implementing additional speed bumps
and Slow Children at Play signs within the length of our street to slow
down the speed of moving vehicles.
As you may be aware, there are many small children located very
close to the Sandy Lake Road and Winding Hollow Lane end of the street.
The reason this has become very important to me at this moment is
because my 8 year old son Tommy was almost struck last night by a car
traveling at a high rate of speed. Even though we had taught him to not
cross the street if cars were present, he ran across the street. We
have followed up with him after this incident to reinforce what he
should and should not do. However, the driver of the car did not even
apply his/her brakes as I yelled for my son to stop his crossing of the
street. The car just missed hitting his legs as he made it across...I'm
actually feeling quite overcome with emotion every time I think about
what could have happened and the subsequent possible events (serious
injury/death, funeral, etc.). It makes me sad to think of my life
without him around; he means absolutely everything to me.
Please consider my request as initial thoughts of how to help
bring awareness to drivers that many children are playing in the area
and that slower/safer driving practices are required. So if you can
review and come up with better solutions, please do so. And if an
unfortunate accident does happen in the future, hopefully by limiting
vehicle speed, the victim will not be subjected to a deadly force....in
turn recovering and living a normal life with family and friends who
need them.
Please let me know if you have any questions/concerns, or want
to discuss in further detail.
Thanks in advance...
Sincerely,
Tom Thakady
115 Winding Hollow Lane
810-423-8508 cell