CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - A 41-year-old Cleveland woman died Saturday evening after being struck by a car on the city’s West side.
According to Cleveland police, the woman struck a parked car in the 3700 block of W. 130th Street around 9 p.m.
This is in the city’s Jefferson neighborhood.
After the crash, the woman exited her vehicle and was struck by another vehicle.
A neighbor who asked not to be identified told 19 News, “The people in that corner home asked her if she was okay. She was conscious and she told them she was alright. They went back into the house, and they said they heard another commotion, when they came back outside, she was lying down on the ground, and she was dead already.”
EMS pronounced the woman wearing a Merry Christmas sweater dead at the scene.
The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner identified her as Cassandra Fear.
Fear owned Fear’s Confections in Lakewood and 19 News interviewed Fear in April 2020 regarding candy stores getting ready for Easter during a pandemic.
Her store closed in March after 13 years in business.
Neighbors who live on the stretch of West 130th near Cooley and North say drivers who often travel more than twice the 35-mile-per-hour speed limit have made it dangerous for anyone who lives, travels, or walks in the area.
Luke Eusebgio, who lives on West 130th between North Road and Interstate 71, says motorists cut through on the street to get to the interstate and put anyone in their path in serious danger.
“In my short time at that residence, my car was parked legally on the side of the street in front of my house. It was rear-ended and totaled overnight by a passing driver who was going too fast. My housemate’s vehicle was parked on the other side of the street, legally parked and it was also slammed into from the back and was totaled completely as well. It’s a residential street, a bunch of homes, you don’t just want traffic flying up and down that street at times going 50 or 60 miles per hour,” said Eusebgio.
Neighbor Latasha Harris believes a number of things could help, “I mean lowering the speed limit possibly I would say.”
Other neighbors suggested a stop sign at the intersection of W. 130th and North.