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A 70-year-old man was hospitalized Monday, Aug. 10, after he was hit by a car near the intersection of Menlo Avenue and University Drive, Menlo Park police said.
The man was crossing Menlo Avenue in a crosswalk near Draeger’s Market when a car turning left onto University Drive hit him at around 10 a.m. The driver stopped at the stop sign, but allegedly did not see the pedestrian, said police spokesperson Nicole Acker.
The pedestrian suffered a head injury and was transported to Stanford Hospital for treatment, where he is recovering, Acker said.
The intersection was closed for hours, until around 1:45 p.m. the day of the accident. Police said the driver stayed at the scene and cooperated with police. Acker said officers are not investigating the collision as a crime.
The city of Menlo Park has made a series of safety improvements at the intersection of Menlo and University, which has had some of the highest rates of collisions in the city. In 2022 alone, there were four pedestrian collisions at that intersection, which was almost a quarter of the total of pedestrian-involved collisions citywide that year.
Since then, the city has reduced Menlo Avenue at the intersection to one lane and extended the curb to reduce the crossing distance for pedestrians.
