Louisville's transportation initiative reports pedestrian fatalities are down this year, even as a deadly crash Friday morning underscores ongoing safety concerns on some of the city’s most dangerous streets.
According to Aaron Ellis, a spokesman for the Louisville Metro Police Department, the crash happened just after 4 a.m. at the intersection of 20th Street and Broadway.
Crews will open the road to eastbound traffic Sunday morning.
One person is dead and another was injured after crashing their car into a tree and a utility pole in Louisville's Buechel neighborhood Sunday evening.
According to Vision Zero's Louisville Dashboard, since the start of the year, Louisville has had 62 deaths on public roads. And that's excluding crashes on interstates.
Preston Highway is known as one of the most dangerous corridors in the city, running from downtown to the Bullitt County line, with an average of 715 crashes each year, according to a city study.
