Why do Houstonians insist on dashing across busy freeways?

The Chronicle's Kevin Moran reports that yet another pedestrian has been killed trying to cross a busy freeway:

A man died after being hit by two 18-wheel trucks and two cars on the East Freeway near Mercury early today, police said.

The man ran across the eastbound lanes of the freeway at about 12:10 a.m., then jumped into the westbound lanes and was hit by the first truck, Houston police accident investigator Officer D. J. Guiterrez said.

"We know he was hit by at least four vehicles," he said. "He got hit by one 18-wheeler, then he was run over by two cars and then by another 18-wheeler."

The drivers of the four vehicles either stopped or called police after the incident, Gutierrez said.

No positive identification of the man had been made by 5 a.m., Gutierrez said.

The incident marks at least the third pedestrian highway death in recent weeks.

Indeed, we've seen many more reports like this over the last year or so.

Does this happen anywhere else with such frequency? What makes anyone think this is a good idea?

And can any of our readers think of a good acronym, in case Chief Hurtt decides HPD needs an education campaign on the matter?

Posted by Kevin Whited @ 01/11/08 09:54 AM | Houston Miscellany | Technorati | Sphere | Comments (28)

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