CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. — Heidi White vividly remembers when she finished work on Aug. 25 in Charlottetown and headed to the crosswalk on Grafton Street by ...
Every weekday, Heidi White uses this crosswalk on Grafton Street near Glendenning Hall to go from her place of work to the bus shelter in order to catch the bus back to Summerside. - Thinh Nguyen/SaltWireSaltWire's Atlantic regional weather forecast for September 1, 2023 | SaltWireCHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. — Heidi White vividly remembers when she finished work on Aug. 25 in Charlottetown and headed to the crosswalk on Grafton Street by Glendenning Hall.
“And then the one that's across the street went right by me as well and never stopped for me,” she said. “Very upset that people just don't pay attention and be mindful of me,” White said when asked about how she was feeling that day. “When you're doing a crosswalk, you don't know if the cars on the stop, or they're going to keep going. And it's very dangerous even though you have your white cane or you even have a dog,” said Walsh, who also has retinitis pigmentosa.“It’s going to be even worse because you don't even know if the cars are there because they're very quiet – those electrical cars,” she said. “When those cars are going to be in full force, it’s going to be hard for the visually impaired.
“Please don't hit me,” she recalled thinking at that moment. “He didn't stop or even tell me that he was near me. He just went right by me. And it was really close.”
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