Yesterday morning a 50-year old Half Moon Bay employee of Nurserymen's Exchange was killed walking across Highway 1 by a northbound driver of a black Ford Explorer. At 6:50 a.m. when the man was hit, the two lane highway was still dark. The Half Moon Bay Police Department said they are investigating the possibility that an additional two vehicles also hit the man.
The stretch of the highway near Ruisseau Francais Ave. has been a dangerous site for pedestrians in the past. Sgt. Michelle Baran said pedestrian accidents there are "not infrequent." Baran said, "One of the problems with the highway is that people are running across and vehicles are going over 50 miles an hour."
Albert Rodriquez, a human resource manager for Nurserymen's Exchange, said that the employee was walking the one and a half miles from his home in Half Moon Bay to the nursery. Rodriquez said many people do this.
"A lot of people on highway 1 go by foot to get to town or their home. It's not an isolated problem."
He said that the company lost an employee before in a similar incident. "The increase of traffic has led to several fatalities here. It's just the fast pace of life," he said.<
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