{"id":11592,"date":"2025-10-22T03:11:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T03:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/11592\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T03:11:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T03:11:26","slug":"road-safety-changes-sought-in-manhattan-after-teen-struck-and-killed-by-semi-nbc-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/11592\/","title":{"rendered":"Road safety changes sought in Manhattan after teen struck and killed by semi \u2013 NBC Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"

Grieving residents in the community of Manhattan pushed for road safety improvements after a 13-year-old boy was struck and killed by a semi<\/a> while riding his bike.<\/p>\n

\u201cYour heart breaks for the family,” neighbor Fred Harvey said. “This is a very tight knit community. I have kids who go to school with the boy who died, and it\u2019s just a tragedy.\u201d<\/p>\n

A memorial in the Will County community continued to grow for the eighth-grade student, with children tying ribbons, honoring a life cut short.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy daughter has said he\u2019s a really nice kid,” Harvey stated. “She rode the bus with him, and he\u2019s just a friendly, outgoing boy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Police said the collision happened at around 5:35 p.m. Monday evening at State and North streets. The boy was found unresponsive under the semi’s trailer and later pronounced dead, authorities said. <\/p>\n

Mayor Mike Adrieansen, in a Facebook post, said residents have previously expressed concerns about semi-truck traffic, especially near schools, parks, the library and the community center.<\/p>\n

Neighbors told NBC Chicago they\u2019d like to see a traffic light installed at the intersection. However, the quick fix would be to reroute semis, which they said cut through the town and have little regard for pedestrians and traffic.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’ve actually seen another person get hit by a car here too,” Nicholas Disterheft, the owner of Manhattan Pizza, said. “I would love to see less semis, if that was possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

The intersection only has one stop sign\u2014for four lanes of traffic.<\/p>\n

Adrieansen said change is coming\u2014but much of it depends on the state. Route 52 is a state road\u2014and an official request has been filed to make it a size-restricted truck route.<\/p>\n

The village engineer is also working on new crosswalks.<\/p>\n

Following the crash, the small town was left grieving, and parents were left with a warning.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou thank god your kids are safe and you just try to make sure all the kids are safe and the kids are aware of their surroundings. Be extra careful. I mean this is a pretty dangerous intersection, and we have trucks going through here all the time, and just be extra safe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Grieving residents in the community of Manhattan pushed for road safety improvements after a 13-year-old boy was struck…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63,7057],"class_list":{"0":"post-11592","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-manhattan","9":"tag-manhattan-headlines","10":"tag-manhattan-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-will-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}