We Need a Stoplight

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This morning,my girlfriend and I were talking when we heard some sort of collision in the intersection out front. I went outside to check it out, and saw only one car involved. At first, I thought the driver, who was now standing in the road crying, had hit a dog, mainly because my loud neighbor from across the street was talking about a "woman walking her dog" on his cellphone. Turns out the woman hit another woman, who was crossing the street. I'm not here to speculate about whether the driver was talking or texting on her cellphone, drunk, asleep, driving from the passenger seat, whatever. Here is what I do know: this intersection needs a stoplight. A pedestrian might as well not even bother using the crosswalks, as motorists just gun it when you're already in the middle (just last week, I almost got wiped out by some woman from Texas who couldn't be bothered to wait a couple seconds.) It doesn't matter if you're walking with kids, pushing a baby stroller, or carrying heavy packages, these drivers aren't waiting. And the closer you are, the more aggressively they gun it. The cops, who are stationed about 100 feet from said intersection, are no help. They might as well stand there and high-five these motorists. In five years, I've seen them pull over exactly one driver for failing to yield (the cop probably gave the motorist a prize instead of a ticket, since they witness these infractions on a daily basis and do nothing more than turn their heads.) And now someone has been hit, and I am going to speculate that it will result in a slap on the wrist for the driver. To add insult to injury, three cars all turned left into the path of the ambulance as it was attempting to pull away with it's injured cargo. The lights and siren were on. The cops looked the other way. All of this might have been avoided with a stoplight.