CHARLOTTE — Drivers were caught on video blowing through a newly installed four-way stop at an east Charlotte intersection where a 6-year-old girl was hit and killed while getting off a school bus on Oct. 23.
Neighbors told Channel 9 the new stop signs went up Monday morning at the intersection on Barington Drive where Mariana Espinoza was killed.
The paint was still fresh from where crews added new road markings and stop signs to make the intersection a four-way stop.
But while crews were doing that work, drivers were seen going through the intersection at full speed without stopping.
“Oh, they’re not stopping,” someone could be heard saying on video.
Channel 9’s Evan Donovan and his crew arrived at the scene at 2:50 p.m. and watched a city bus drive through the intersection without stopping.
Kevin Mousaw, a neighbor who helped Mariana after she was hit, requested the changes to the intersection.
Later Monday afternoon, a Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police officer pulled into the grass near the intersection. One minute and 39 seconds later, the officer was pulling someone over.
Neighbors said they just want their street to be safer.
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