ATLANTA — Pedestrian safety is a complicated issue because all participants in a commuting environment are stakeholders and share responsibility for each other's safety. But pedestrians are the most vulnerable, as they are not protected by steel cages and glass.

The issue's poignancy grew in my cortex, as my 11Alive traffic co-anchor, Rachel Cox-Rosen , photojournalist Stephen Boissy, and I covered several incidents where cars hit people during morning drive last month.

A driver hit and killed a woman who was jogging along Cobb Parkway near Barrett Parkway in Kennesaw in the pre-dawn hours on Monday, September 8th. The next day, a cyclist got hit by a car on Williams Street at 10th Street around 8 a.m. in Midtown. Then that Thursday, a person darted into traffic on North Druid Hills

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