“People are almost blasé about [pedestrian and bicyclist collisions],” said Marissa Valeri, chair of the Rockville Pedestrian Advocacy Committee. “And I don’t think folks think through that a critical injury is not a fatality moment [but] these are serious implications for individuals for the rest of their life.”

I’m here tonight because Twinbrook is a wonderful [neighborhood] with a very large population of recent immigrants,” Marissa Valeri of Rockville said. “I tried to get folks to come here and testify and they’re scared and frightened that they will be deported.