One year trying to fix the street where a driver hit me and my dog (opens in new tab)

May 7 marks a year since a driver hit my dog Drizzy and I, one block from our house in Silver Spring on our afternoon walk. We still see the driver sometimes, riding down Thayer Avenue past the intersection where he ran a stop sign, swerved, and showed no remorse after he hit us. He lives on the block where he hit us, and I looked up his car and found several speeding tickets in both Maryland and Virginia, one of which was for going 30 miles over the limit. Last summer, the driver’s insurance...