{"id":58569,"date":"2018-03-05T11:46:23","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T16:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/?p=58569"},"modified":"2018-03-05T11:48:20","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T16:48:20","slug":"wrong-answer-tragic-death-boy-walking-home-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2018\/03\/05\/wrong-answer-tragic-death-boy-walking-home-school\/","title":{"rendered":"The wrong answer to a tragic death of a boy walking home from school"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday, February 27, around 3:30 PM, Duncan Xu, an 11-year old boy, was struck and killed<\/a> by a motorist in a residential neighbourhood in north Scarborough. He was the tenth pedestrian killed on Toronto’s streets in 2018, and the second child killed on their way home from school<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Duncan Xu was crossing Canongate Trail at Ockwell Manor Drive, near the school, when he was hit by a motorist driving north on Canongate. The intersection does not have a crosswalk, but is only 70 metres north of an intersection controlled by a four-way stop. Canongate Trail a residential street lined with houses, and has a 40 km\/h speed limit. The collision occurred right in front of a school zone sign.  Despite its residential nature, Canongate Trail acts as shortcut for non-local traffic avoiding the busy intersection of Steeles Avenue and Kennedy Road.<\/p>\n

I visited the neighbourhood on Sunday to better understand the conditions in which a child is killed crossing the street on his way home to school, and the local councillor’s “solution” to that problem.<\/p>\n