La Crosse completes construction on 3 new median islands
Some road construction projects in La Crosse are making crosswalks safer for pedestrians.
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Some road construction projects in La Crosse are making crosswalks safer for pedestrians.
A pedestrian is killed by a car roughly every 90 minutes in the United States. And until this week, all of those drivers were human.
A safer path is now open for a dangerous crosswalk in our area.
47 people have died while crossing the street in Wisconsin so far this year.
Police want drivers and pedestrians to be on high alert as thousands of college students move back to La Crosse for the school year.
Authorities have identified the pedestrian struck and killed by a motorcycle in Olmsted County.
Pedestrian deaths spiked to a 25-year high in Minnesota in 2016, illustrating what's been a grim upward trend across the country in recent years.
Most of the Twin Cities-area drivers who killed a pedestrian between 2010 and 2014 weren't charged criminally.
La Crosse police are making extra efforts to get the word out about pedestrian safety.
Two pedestrians were hit by a pickup truck early Sunday morning during a hit and run incident.