Nov. 4 Update:
A 16-year-old Collegeville girl was hospitalized after being struck by a vehicle on Skippack Pike and Route 113 on Nov. 2 at 4 p.m., according to a report from the Pennsylvania State Police
The report states that the girl, who was walking west on the sidewalk on Rt. 113 at Skippack Pike, stepped into the road for an unknown reason, directly infront of a Toyota Corolla driven by Joseph Carella of Telford.
The girl was then transported to Pennsylvania Hospital for further evaluation, according to the police.
There is no indication that this is an ongoing investigation.
Original Story Follows:
A pedestrian was struck in downtown Skippack at 3:50 p.m. on Friday, according to the Montgomery County Department of Public Safety.
The victim suffered injuries, and a helicopter was requested on the scene.
The vehicle remained on the scene after the incident.
Traffic is impacted by this accident; seek an alternate route.
More information will be published as it becomes available.
These rapid speeds are a real danger to pedestrians in the village and make crossing the street impossible. It is our opinion that the legal speed limit should be reduced to 25mph in order to help safeguard our patrons, children and others. We, the Merchants of Skippack Association, petition the Skippack Township and PENNDOT to reduce the speed limit in the village on Route 73 (between Route 113 and Voit Drive) from from 35 to at least 25 mph. Drivers typically speed through the populated business district which includes tourist, local residents, senior citizens, handicapped and disabled individuals, and children of all ages who are trying to cross Route 73. This reduction in the speed limit to 25 mph will provide the safety to all those who visit Skippack Village. Please help keep our beloved village safe from future accidents from occurring by show your support and sign our petition at http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/reduce-speed-limit-in-skippack-village.html#sign
Good morning and thank you for your comment. As residents of Skippack Village ourselves, we are very passionate about our hometown and all those who visit it.
Good afternoon. Thank you for your support and we welcome all those who wish to share our petition with other to spread the word. The more support we can get the better. We hope that this petition brings attention to local and state authorities the seriousness of this safety issue.
Will you please call the mayor and tell him that we need crosswalks at Main & Perkiomen, Main and Maple, Main and Centennial, and the long obliterated one at Main/Game Farm Road. I believe the ones you are referring to have been done were already on the plans with the new streetscaping/line painting fiasco. However, if you have that much pull with the mayor and council, I would appreciate you calling him. They haven't heard me for years. They even ignored doing the crosswalk at the elementary school this year. They have been talking making the boro a more pedestrian friendly town for years and then I bring forth these issues and receive no response. Please make that call and let me know what response you get? Also, the sidewalks are awful in many places. The development area sidewalk has been missing flagstones for years, and other sections are bad, but they won't fix them because "someday" they will develop that area. They moved the traffic within inches of the sidewalk and still ignore the safety issues they caused and yet still no enforcement either........Talk soon, I hope.
You're so right, most people will not even stop at the hash mark at most any stop sign or Red light before even entering the crosswalk; and it is the law. Twice in the last week I crossed legally from the liquor store to Perkiomen Avenue, I push button to cross and go to the curb and the person that I THINK just saw me cross in front of them, makes a right turn on red. It would have been obvious that I was attempting to cross the nonexistent crosswalk at Perkiomen and Main. Schwenksville in an unfriendly pedestrian town. I always use your crosswalk as it is the safest one in town. See you soon.