Two police investigations, one fatality on same Woodland Park street in two days
An 80-year-old crossing guard was struck and killed on the job Monday afternoon. Two children were also hit.
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Police have reopened a portion of McBride Avenue in Woodland Park after a closure and investigation Tuesday afternoon. This is the same street where a crossing guard was struck and killed Monday afternoon.
News 12 has reached out to Woodland Park police for more information on Tuesday's incident. Police, including the Passaic County Sheriff's Office, were on-scene taking pictures. The road was closed for more than an hour.
Flowers lay at the corner of McBride and Lackawanna avenues, where 80-year-old Jean Schultz worked as a crossing guard. Police said she was crossing two kids Monday around 3:30 p.m. when they were all hit.
The two children are said to be OK. Schultz died at the hospital. The driver in that crash remained on-scene.
Tuesday's closure marked consecutive days this week where the road was closed for a police investigation at the same time of day - and residents have concerns over the intersection.
“Sometimes people are speeding," said Lindsay Seaborn, a teacher at nearby Beatrice Gilmore Elementary. "They're not paying attention to the children. They're not keeping in mind that this is a school area.”
There are middle and elementary schools half a mile up McBride Avenue.
“We never had that much traffic like now," said resident Adrian Franco. "Now with the Amazon [warehouse] and all this new business.”
The borough just last year added pedestrian walk signs with push buttons and left turn lights to this intersection in an effort to improve safety.
