Patrols tonight focus on one of worst roads for pedestrian crashes

The enforcement blitz will look for reckless driving, impaired driving, distracted driving, failure to yield, speeding and jaywalking. The purpose of the service initiative is to increase awareness of and compliance to the state’s laws.

State Route 48 is among the top four roads in the county for pedestrian-related crashes, according to OSHP. In the last five years, there’s been 124 pedestrian-related crashes resulting in 10 fatalities on state Route 48.

So far this year, OSHP has reported 134 pedestrian-related crashes in Montgomery County. Of the 2,027 pedestrian-related crashes in Ohio in 2021, 140 of them were fatal.