Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Nearly a week after two cars collided at Monroe Boulevard and East Beech Street the night of Aug. 10, which resulted in an overturned vehicle but no reported injuries, according to the Long Beach Fire Department, the father of one of the drivers called on the City Council to address stop sign safety at the intersection.
Long Beach resident Jeff Kupferman said that his son, Michael, was in an SUV that flipped over when an out-of-town driver heading south on Monroe Boulevard ran the stop sign.
“[My son] had just left our house on Neptune beach, where we were watching the Olympics, and he left to head home,” he said at the Aug. 16 council meeting. “Five minutes after leaving, we got the call. My wife picked up the phone and I watched her face turn white. She had just been told, ‘Mom, I was in an accident and the car flipped, but I’m OK.’ As you might imagine, to us, things were not OK until we saw him.”
“My son and our family are both blessed and lucky, someone else may not be,” Kupferman told the council. “Trimming trees and making traffic signs visible should be something that can be accomplished and agreed upon in our stronger, smarter and safer city.”
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