Woodstock is taking steps to improve pedestrian safety on Arnold Mill Road after two women and a baby trying to cross the street were struck by an SUV and fatally injured earlier this summer.
The City Council approved reducing the speed limit on Arnold Mill, from between 35 and 45 mph currently to 30 mph between Main Street and Hubbard Road, in front of the Northside Hospital-Cherokee Amphitheater, and to 40 mph from Hubbard to Anderson Court. The speed limit will be 45 mph from Anderson to Neese Road.
The council also approved taking $300,000 previously budgeted in the Tax Allocation District fund for resurfacing Arnold Mill and designating it for pedestrian crossings.
Kathy Deming, 61, of Marietta; and two Hurricane Irma evacuees, Kaitlin Hunt, 28, and Hunt’s three-month-old baby Riley, were struck the evening of Sept. 9 as they were crossing Arnold Mill.
At a Sept. 25 council presentation on proposed pedestrian improvements, Mayor Donnie Henriques said, “Every one of us here in this room tonight wish we could go back and change what happened that night, but as you know we can’t. What we can do is make sure it doesn’t happen again.”
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