PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 A grieving mother led a memorial march through the streets of Philadelphia\u2019s Cobbs Creek neighborhood Thursday to commemorate the hit-and-run death of her son more than a year ago.<\/p>\n
Angela McDonald\u2019s son Mark, then 32, was struck by a vehicle and killed while walking home near 58th and Pine Streets in Cobbs Creek in July of 2025. Police are still searching for the suspect. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt hurts my heart,\u201d McDonald said. \u201cIt hurts my heart because I believe that my son\u2019s case has not been handled properly. That\u2019s just the way I feel.\u201d<\/p>\n
Alongside pushing for justice for Mark, McDonald said Philadelphia\u2019s streets need to be safer.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need more cameras,\u201d she said. \u201cWe need more speed bumps. And I know people have a problem with speed bumps. I don\u2019t. But if you\u2019re not speeding, they won\u2019t tear your car up. You slow down; that\u2019s what the whole purpose of them is.\u201d<\/p>\n
Julio Rodriguez of Families for Safe Streets Greater Philadelphia agreed that the city needs to do more.<\/p>\n
\u201cSpeed kills,\u201d he said. \u201cIf you\u2019re hit at 40 miles an hour, only two people out of 10 survive. So a number of things. One is speed bumps. Better lighting, speed limit reduction.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rodriguez also said the city should increase protections for cyclists, who are at risk on many of the same streets.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery single day that I ride in an unprotected bike lane \u2014 which is a lot of the time \u2014 I genuinely worry, like, am I going to make it back home?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 A grieving mother led a memorial march through the streets of Philadelphia\u2019s Cobbs Creek…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[11355,24630,8589,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-317881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-cobbs-creek","tag-fatal-hit-and-run","tag-memorial","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}