SEATTLE -- A Seattle mother is fighting to further improve a dangerous crosswalk where her son was nearly killed.
Desiree Douglass has become an advocate for safety ever since her son, Dominick May-Douglass, was hit by a driver at the intersection of 41st and Stone Way N in Seattle’s Wallingford neighborhood in 2005. Dominick was legally using the crosswalk on his way home from school when the driver hit him.
Dominick received life threatening head injuries.
“It’s easy to look at our family and say they’re the family that had the head injury or a car accident,” said Douglas. “But actually we’re just the same as everybody else it just happened to us.”
She fought with the city of Seattle to eventually get the intersection reduced from four lanes to three, but she is still trying to convince the city to add a pedestrian-activated light.
“I think it would be a clear message to drivers,” she said.
Douglass has also started a non-profit organization called “Headstrong,” dedicated to supporting young people with Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI) and their families.
“I just don’t’ want what happened to Dom, to happen to anyone else,” she said.
