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String of Fatal Pedestrian Accidents in Brockton Claims Another Victim

A makeshift memorial grew on Belmont Street in memory of Carl Yancey, 31, who was struck and killed in a hit and run crash Sept. 28. Jessica Rinaldi/Boston Globe

By Hannah Sparks

October 25, 2014

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The Randolph woman struck and killed in Brockton this week is the latest victim in a string of fatal hit-and-run accidents involving pedestrians in the city this year.

Amy Laycob, 26, was struck on East Ashland Street Wednesday night and transported to Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital, where she died Friday morning, according to NECN.

Police arrested Kathleen Casey, 53, of Brockton, charging her with drunken driving causing serious injury, leaving the scene of a personal injury accident, and negligent operation of a motor vehicle. Casey was arraigned Thursday in Brockton District Court. The Enterprise reports that she was released on $5,000 bail with the condition that she not possess or consume alcohol and that she allow a probation officer to visit her unannounced.

She is due back in court Dec. 8. In light of Laycob’s death Friday, Brockton Police and the Plymouth County DA’s Office are reviewing the charges against Casey and may file additional charges.

There have been a number of serious pedestrian accidents this year in Brockton, several of them fatal:

• Martin Snyder, 68, was struck and killed by a vehicle while walking across Court Street on his way home Oct. 8. The driver cooperated with police and was not charged.

• Carl Yancey, 31, was killed Sept. 28 as he crossed Belmont Street near a 7-Eleven. Police are still looking for the driver of the silver or gray minivan that hit him.

Two children were struck and killed in August alone:

• Nazaire Nunes-Escobar was hit by a tractor trailer truck while Rollerblading on Battles Street on Aug. 14, his twelfth birthday.

• Three-year-old Cassiano Modesto was killed Aug. 29 on Harvey Street.

Neither of the drivers involved in those accidents faced charges.

Following the deaths of Yancey and Snyder, Brockton Mayor Bill Carpenter sought a “Road Safety Audit’’ from the Department of Transportation and is now working with the DOT as well as local and state law enforcement to fast track road improvements and educate the community, especially its children, on traffic safety.