{"id":150585,"date":"2026-02-04T13:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T13:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/150585\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T13:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T13:44:13","slug":"safgety-upgrades-coming-to-the-site-of-a-fatal-hit-and-run-crash-in-el-paso-county-a-year-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/150585\/","title":{"rendered":"Safgety upgrades coming to the site of a fatal hit-and-run crash in El Paso County a year ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) \u2014 The efforts of a Colorado Congressman and the head of the county&#8217;s  Board of Commissioners have resulted in $1 million of federal funding for the intersection of Constitution Avenue and Peterson Road.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screen-Shot-2026-02-04-at-6.13.14-AM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1698299\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Rep. Jeff Crank, R-Colorado Springs, recently announced the allocation, citing the assistance of Commissioner Carrie Geitner.<\/p>\n<p>His announcement came a year after the January 2025 hit-and-run crash at the intersection that killed Charlene McAlister, 76; she was a beloved employee at a nearby daycare center who walked the same route to work daily.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screen-Shot-2026-02-04-at-6.14.07-AM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1698300\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>That summer, authorities arrested a suspect and charged him with leaving the scene of a fatal accident.<\/p>\n<p>Crank said that the federal funding will finance numerous safety improvements relating to signal timing, street lighting, center median work, and lane adjustments.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screen-Shot-2026-02-04-at-6.15.10-AM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1698301\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>According to county officials, the project is still under design and has no official start date.<\/p>\n<p>Another project under design nearby and benefitting from federal money is scheduled to begin this summer: Replacing stormwater infrastructure along several blocks of  Palmer Park Boulevard, in the Cimarron Hills neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screen-Shot-2026-02-04-at-6.16.18-AM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1698302\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The funding will also pay for equipment at the county sheriff&#8217;s office and for a cybersecurity program at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs (UCCS).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) \u2014 The efforts of a Colorado Congressman and the head of the county&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":{"0":"post-150585","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-el-paso","8":"tag-el-paso","9":"tag-el-paso-headlines","10":"tag-el-paso-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}