The 15th pedestrian in Anchorage has died in traffic. On Friday afternoon, a man was fatally struck near 34th Avenue on C Street in midtown by a Jeep Gladiator pickup that was traveling south on C Street.
Patrol officers and Anchorage Fire Department paramedics responded around 5:16 p.m. and cleared the scene after 11 p.m.; meanwhile, the pedestrian was declared dead at a local hospital.
It’s been a year since the Anchorage Assembly revised the jaywalking ordinance to allow people to wander into the roadway whenever they feel it is safe, using their own judgment, to do so. Since then, the pedestrian deaths have skyrocketed in the city.
