How Maryland Decides To Make Roads Safer For Pedestrians

COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — A drunk driver struck and killed Matthew Cheswick, 22, on Memorial Day weekend in 2012 as he walked on Coastal Highway in Ocean City, a popular tourist destination on the Atlantic coast.
The Towson University student was one of 40 people hit by vehicles on the state highway that year, and one of two fatalities.
In response, the Maryland State Highway Administration ran a pedestrian education campaign with the city that featured a cartoon crab name “Cheswick&r