Parents rally, calling for 'Vision Zero' commitment to safer street crossings

Parents gathered before dawn Friday outside Western Hills University and Gilbert A. Dater high schools, brandishing neon signs with a simple request to drivers on Ferguson Road: Slow down. Shawna Rodriguez wiped away tears as she addressed reporters and the crowd of gathered parents. Her daughter, Gabby -- then a freshman at West High -- died in September after two cars struck her on Harrison Avenue on her way to school. "We cannot continue to have our children crossing four lanes of roadway," she said.