Update: Pedestrian Hit Near Carvel in Mamaroneck

The vehicle was making a lefthand turn and the pedestrian was in the crosswalk.  It happened at 1:43 Thursday afternoon (Oct 22) near the Carvel in Rye Neck.  Police say the car heading west on Halstead Ave was turning onto Barry Ave and somehow clipped a 9 year-old child despite the presence of a crossing guard.  The victim, whoa been walking home from school, was taken by ambulance to White Plains Hospital; the was driver cited for failure to yield to a person in a crosswalk, and the injury was thankfully not serious.  (The child, in fact, was well enough to attend a meeting about the incident on Monday with his mother.) The friehgtneing circumstances of the incident, however, have amplified the call for more pedestrian protection in Mamaroneck Village. Barry and Halstead Avenues Mamaroneck Mayor Sharon Torres acknowledged a deluge of complaints and comments about the intersection since the Thursday accident. In an on-line post she assured residents that the crossing in question is a