Dearborn Heights Residents Want Safety Changes To Neighborhood

DEARBORN HEIGHTS, MI — Dearborn Heights residents are requesting changes to their neighborhood after a 12-year-old boy was fatally struck by a car while riding his bike home from a high school football game.

Residents want school and government officials to install speed bumps and flashing stop signs at every intersection around schools in Dearborn Heights, especially around Annapolis High School, where the seventh-grader was killed in October, according to a petition on change.org.

"For years speeding has been a problem on Annapolis and Pardee streets where children live, play, and walk to/from school," BreeAnne Scott wrote in the petition. "Joey was hit in front of an elementary school and passed away just a block from the middle school he attended himself."

Residents in the petition argue that speed bumps and flashing stop lights will force drivers in the area of schools to slow down and pay more attention to their surroundings.

As of Thursday morning, 3,305 people have signed the petition, just short of its 5,000 goal.