Information About the Crash
The June 16, 2025 City Administrator’s report included details of a car/pedestrian crash at the intersection of Maiden Lane and Island Drive that occurred on May 15, 2025. The pedestrian sustained a serious injury.
AAPD released the UD-10 report to CIAA in July. According to witnesses, a pedestrian was walking southbound, crossing Maiden Lane in the crosswalk, when she was struck by the westbound vehicle.
Excerpt of UD-10 report.
CIAA visited this location on August 15 and September 14, 2025 and collected pictures of the intersection. The following picture from September 14 shows the crosswalk marked with pedestrian warning signs with bright posts and in-lane signs. The high visibility pavement markings are in poor condition in the westbound lane. Images collected on August 15 but not shown here show the pavement and signs in the same condition.
Two other nearby crosswalks at the intersection of Maiden Lane and Maiden Lane Court also have pedestrian warning signs with bright posts.
Crosswalk at Maiden Lane and Island Drive, shown from the perspective of the approaching driver. Each crosswalk has 4 diamond-shaped signs–two facing in each direction. The picture was taken in September, 2025. (Photo credit: Todd Marsee)
An April, 2024 Google Street View image shows fewer signs at the three intersections. The signs at Maiden Lane and Island Drive crosswalk (nearer) are single-sided with one facing east and one west. The signs at the Maiden Lane and Maiden Lane Court crosswalks (further) are double sided. (Google Street View source)
Images in the Google Street View system from April, 2024 show fewer crosswalk signs at the three crosswalks near Maiden Lane and Island Drive and no in-street signage.
Most traffic signs in the city have an adhesive tag on the back side that shows the installation date. Many of the pedestrian warning signs (diamond-shaped) and rectangular arrow signs at these three crosswalks don’t have date tags on them. Based on the Street View image, though, many of these signs were clearly added after April, 2024.
At Maiden Lane and Maiden Lane Court, the two new sign assemblies (each with two diamond warning signs and two arrow signs) have only one tag each, dated July, 2025. This installation was after the serious injury crash. The new signs at Maiden Lane and Island Drive, which appear to have been added to the previously existing sign posts, do not have any date tags, so it is impossible to know if they were installed before the crash or after, like the other nearby new signs.
The city map of transportation infrastructure indicates that the crosswalks in this area received a signage upgrade in 2022, which is consistent with the date tags on the older signs. The map has not been updated yet to show any upgrades in 2025, even though the stickers indicate that signs were added in July of this year.
The date sticker on one of the double-sided crosswalk signs at the intersection of Maiden Lane and Maiden Lane Court shows that it was installed in July, 2025, after the crash at the nearby intersection of Maiden Lane and Island Drive.
Recommendations
Improve Crosswalk Signage at Similar Crosswalks
Improvements were made to the crosswalks in this area in July, 2025, after the crash. When a crash brings to light opportunities for improvement at a location, the city should definitely act on them, as they did here. The new signage will help to prevent future crashes and injuries.
But it would be even better if the city acted to identify other single-sided crosswalk signs, like this one on Packard, and upgrade those as well. We can take what we have learned from this crash and apply to similar locations around the city before anyone gets hurt there.
The signs at the crosswalk near Packard St. and Coler Rd. are single sided. The arrow points to the back side of the sign that faces traffic of outbound Packard.
Improve Driver Compliance at Crosswalks
In the twelve months before the Maiden Lane crash, pedestrians were seriously injured in 5 different incidents at other uncontrolled crosswalks throughout the city:
In 2017, Ann Arbor helped to write the book on strategies for improving driver compliance at crosswalks. Professor Ron Van Houten studied the effects of targeted enforcement and education on driver behavior. The final report was shared with City Council in 2019. The study showed that compliance at some crosswalks improved by more than 30%.
We know how to cut down on crosswalk crashes like this one. We just need to start doing it again.