Neighbors have been taking street safety into their own hands.
Pulaski Road between 51st and 71st streets—in the West Elsdon and West Lawn communities—is known as a busy area. To many residents, it is also dangerous.
"There's always high speed," said Jaime Groth Searle, a founder of The Southwest Collective. "There's like at least one accident a week - sometimes more than that."
The latest incident involved a truck crashing into a car dealership on the corner of 49th Street and Pulaski Road on Wednesday – shattering the front windows of the business and the concrete surrounding them.
It was unclear late Thursday what caused the accident.
Employees said no one was injured inside—a lucky outcome, residents say, unlike other incidents that have happened on the same stretch of road.
"It's becoming a lot more dangerous for people who live in the neighborhood," said Dixon Galvez-Searle.
Dixon Galvez-Searle and Jaime Roth Searle founded The Southwest Collective, or SW Collective, as a group dedicated to improving neighborhoods in the general area of Midway International Airport. One of their main concerns is the lack of safety along Pulaski Road.
"It's everything from property damage like we're seeing behind us, to people getting seriously hurt, to even people getting killed," said Galvez-Searle, "and this happens on a regular basis."
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