Process for reporting crosswalk incidents needs to be improved

I read with interest your article in Saturday's paper. It must have been very tragic indeed for Joe to have hit a person who then passed away what a horrible waste of a life.

Toward the end of the article it mentioned how a man who ran into the traffic and was struck by a car and thus was given an ticket for doing so.

Let me inform you what happens if you are a pedestrian are walking on a crosswalk and someone doesn’t stop. If you report to the police because you have the type of car and license plate number you actually have to go to Fort Townshend.

I did that the first time someone almost struck me and I had to wait for a police person to be available to take my report. After an hour of waiting I decided to leave.

So the next time it happened I called and three different officers returned my call to ask me to go to Fort Townshend to fill out a report.

In this instance the car was near enough to me to see the driver and upon telling him he was supposed to stop he told me to f--- off. I managed to get his plate number and type of car. I didn’t bother to go and report as it seemed a waste of my time.

Why in this age of digital technology are we wasting valuable police resources to have them sit with us to fill out a report on a crosswalk? Why can’t this form be available online to us and not make the victim in this case have to do all the work to ensure someone is given a warning or ticket?

There is something wrong that in this day and age that this is the procedure for reporting a crosswalk incident. This is probably why there are so many drivers not stopping as they know the chance of a fine is slim and nil.

I do agree with the police and urge vigilance for both drivers and pedestrians and may 2020 be free of any incidents involving same. Anna Penney

St. John's