Family and friends are mourning a 71-year-old woman killed while walking her dog.
Barbara Wood was struck by a vehicle in front of her apartment complex in Sachse last month.
It happened near Amberlin at The Station, a 55+ active adult community, where Wood had lived since the complex opened three years ago.
“Kind, would do anything for anybody,” said friend and neighbor Carole Clark. “That’s why it’s shaken the community so bad because it was such a senseless act.”
Wood was a mother of three and a grandmother.
She was walking her dog the morning of Thursday, October 23, when, in a crosswalk over The Station Boulevard, Sachse police say Eood was struck by a vehicle around 7 a.m. and died at a hospital.
The sudden loss has stunned friends, like Clark, who was just with Wood the night before her death.
“We have a party here every Wednesday night. It’s party city. She sat with us at our table, and we didn’t know we weren’t going to get to see her again,” said Clark, choking up.
Police released images of the dark-colored vehicle that they say struck Wood and kept going.
“How can they live with themselves?” asked Clark.
But justice isn’t their only objective.
From speeding cars to drivers ignoring lights at the crosswalk where Wood was killed, the tragedy has many in the area asking for more safety measures along The Station Boulevard.
“I truthfully don’t cross this unless it’s Saturday and Sunday and there’s no cars early in the morning,” said Clark.
Since the tragedy, neighbors say police have added cameras and a radar feedback sign near the crosswalk.
Neighbors will celebrate Wood’s like on Saturday, then attend a Sachse City Council meeting on Monday to ask for a more permanent fix.
“Her family — they need closure and we need justification for Barbara,” said Clark.
Anyone with information about the case is asked to call the Sachse police.