Driver pleads guilty in fatal hit-and-run near Ted Drewes amid new report addressing street safety epidemic [Video]

New research finds walking and driving in our region is getting more dangerous.

On Friday, a man pleaded guilty in court to a hit and run in 2022, bringing even more urgency to the problem of addressing street safety.

Seventeen-year-old Matthew Nikolai died crossing the street heading to Ted Drewes on Chippewa Street. Twenty-seven-year-old Jacob Adler pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident and tampering with evidence. Court documents show Adler drove into the teen crossing the street, never reporting the accident to police. Soon after, he took his truck to a body shop to repair the damage. 

“Slow down,” said Nancy Cambria, a spokesperson with East-West Gateway Council of Governments, a planning agency funded with local and …