Glen Ridge Police say that the victim of yesterday's car-pedestrian fatality at the intersection of Bloomfield and Hillside Aves. was a 63-year-old Bloomfield woman who lived on Park Ave., but they still have not released her name pending notificatin of kin. The driver was Gus Holsey of Montclair.

The accident, meanwhile, has drawn attention to a five-corner intersection long considered dangerous. "I've been talking about the intersection for years," said Glen Ridge Mayor Carl Bergmanson. "The reality is that it's a county intersection. The town has nothing to do with it. It's one of the most dangerous intersections in town."

Bergmanson said he asked the county as recently as two weeks ago to start the long-awaited retooling of the Hillside intersection, and had gotten word from the county that work would soon start. Although Bergmanson didn't think that the intersection's configuration had to do with yesterday's fatality, "it does underscore the fact that it is a very poorly designed intersection," he said.

The only worse intersection in town, Bergmanson says, is the intersection of Highland and Glenridge Ave., which features three blinking red lights and one blinking yellow.

April 9, 2005 in Intersections We Hate | Permalink