Pedestrian killed in Wellston MO had walked daily to work along an even more dangerous route : STL Post-Dispatch

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LaTonya Williams had finally said goodbye to the familiar dangers of walking through heavy traffic on her way to part-time minimum-wage jobs.

But just as she had moved on to safer routines, she and her boyfriend were killed last week in a pedestrian accident in Wellston.

In November, Williams, 18, was featured in a front-page Post-Dispatch story about the lack of public transportation in remote parts of the region. Williams, then a work-study student in the Valley Park School District, lived at Valley Park Apartments, a strip of subsidized housing that doesn’t have a bus stop.

Williams would walk the spine of busy Highway 141 to get to jobs at Burger King and Bob Evans to help support her mother, 4-year-old brother and other relatives, while also attending high school.

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Pedestrian killed in Wellston MO had walked daily to work along an even more dangerous route : STL Post-Dispatch