Hundred of moms, dads and their kids attended a vigil for Georgia Walsh today (Thursday, July 17, 2014) at the corner of Millwood Rd and McRae Drive. This is the intersection at which Georgia was fatally injured 24 hours earlier when she was hit by a minivan as it turned right onto Millwood off McRae. The gathering was both large and orderly. Parents talked quietly among themselves and also to news people, who flooded the corner with their numbers and five satellite antennae trucks (inset). Parents could be heard explaining to reporters about the amount of activity in the the area — Trace Manes Park, the tennis courts, Leaside Library and Leaside United Church. One mother (inset) was holding her little ones extra tightly as she knelt with tear-filled eyes at the memorial of flowers piled against the LUC hedge just about at the point where Georgia last tried to cross the road. Earlier in the day children, classmates and neighbours sat cross-legged in front of flowers. There is much talk of increased traffic in the area for many reasons, mostly the LRT disruptions on Eglinton Ave. E. “This community has become a traffic nightmare because of all the commercial development that’s going on and it’s only going to get worse,” area resident Patrick Rocca told CityNews. Read the Walsh family’s statement here and the account of the accident hereHundreds attend sombre vigil for Georgia Walsh
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Hundred of moms, dads and their kids attended a vigil for Georgia Walsh today (Thursday, July 17, 2014) at the corner of Millwood Rd and McRae Drive. This is the intersection at which Georgia was fatally injured 24 hours earlier when she was hit by a minivan as it turned right onto Millwood off McRae. The gathering was both large and orderly. Parents talked quietly among themselves and also to news people, who flooded the corner with their numbers and five satellite antennae trucks (inset). Parents could be heard explaining to reporters about the amount of activity in the the area — Trace Manes Park, the tennis courts, Leaside Library and Leaside United Church. One mother (inset) was holding her little ones extra tightly as she knelt with tear-filled eyes at the memorial of flowers piled against the LUC hedge just about at the point where Georgia last tried to cross the road. Earlier in the day children, classmates and neighbours sat cross-legged in front of flowers. There is much talk of increased traffic in the area for many reasons, mostly the LRT disruptions on Eglinton Ave. E. “This community has become a traffic nightmare because of all the commercial development that’s going on and it’s only going to get worse,” area resident Patrick Rocca told CityNews. Read the Walsh family’s statement here and the account of the accident here