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There are also Macon residents who chose to ignore the signs. A pedestrian is shown after continuing through the roadwork in the rain. Photo credit: Angel Colquitt

Pedestrians fatalities in Macon-Bibb

Macon Newsroom Staff
January 28, 2025
Peachtree Recovery Services' Vice President Todd Rhoad, second from left, presents a report on pedestrian "hotspots" in Macon to a few members of the Macon-Bibb Pedestrian Safety Review Board who attended the monthly meeting in June 2023.

Five ‘hotspots’ for pedestrian deaths, injuries identified in Bibb County

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
June 21, 2023
Macon-Bibb County Mayor Lester Miller answers the public's questions each month.

Ask Mayor Miller: Public safety spending priority, tax rollback, river hazards and road work

Macon-Bibb County Mayor Lester Miller answers questions emailed each month to [email protected] through the Center for Collaborative Journalism 
Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
June 1, 2023
$2.7M tapped for Macon road repairs; commissioners raise concerns over new GBI anti-gang task force

$2.7M tapped for Macon road repairs; commissioners raise concerns over new GBI anti-gang task force

Macon-Bibb Commissioners formally commended Mayor Lester Miller for the 500th demolition in the ongoing blight fight
Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
May 3, 2023
Coroner Leon Jones said Pio Nono Avenue is one of the deadliest roads in Georgia and likely the deadliest road in Macon.

Macon-Bibb County Pedestrian Safety Review Board responsibilities outsourced to private company

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
February 23, 2023
Imogene Patterson peers through the blinds behind the check-in desk at Economy Hotel on Pio Nono. She said she sometimes holds her breath watching some of the hotel guests trying to cross the five lanes of Pio Nono Avenue to get to the Circle K convenience store.

‘I hate to look.’ Deadly stretch of Pio Nono lacks crosswalk, stoplight as pedestrians keep dying

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
February 13, 2023
Henry Young III, 64, knows well how deadly Pio Nono Avenue can be for people on foot. He says lowering the speed limit could help because, "they treat this road here just like a racetrack."

Macon’s deadliest streets: Two roommates die months apart crossing same busy road

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
January 31, 2023
A Bibb County sheriff deputy's car with blue lights activated near a pedestrian crosswalk on Jeffersonville Road in Macon.

Macon’s roads are becoming deadlier for pedestrians, but few hit-and-runs are solved

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
January 17, 2023
Stacy Jones lives in a small blue house at the dead end of Roosevelt Avenue with his 6-year-old daughter and 97-year-old grandmother. He said he feels like Pleasant Hill is being gentrified.

A state authority got millions to reduce poverty in Pleasant Hill. Has it helped?

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
December 14, 2022
A desire line on Pio Nono Avenue in Macon after it passes under Interstate 75. The spot is one of the most deadly for pedestrians in Macon.

Hit-and-run pedestrian deaths have doubled in Bibb County this year

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
November 16, 2022
A man who was hit by a car on Gray Highway was lying in the road for about 25 minutes as he waited for an ambulance, patrol car and fire truck for help.

17 pedestrians died on Bibb County roads in 2021. How long did they wait for help?

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
April 8, 2022
Jerry Dewayne Houston

2 suspects identified, 1 sought in 2021 pedestrian hit-and-run deaths in Bibb County

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
March 22, 2022
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