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News of a raised pedestrian crossing to be constructed at a Gate Pa intersection is being met with relief from residents who witnessed a hit and run incident on Friday.

Cook Street resident Teisha Paratene says on Friday morning their cameras recorded a crash at 7.33am outside their house on the corner of Cook Street and Faulkner Street.

In the footage, a car is seen coming up Faulkner Street and failing to stop as it turns left into Cook Street ploughing straight into two people riding an electric scooter.

After falling across the bonnet, the two riders are thrown to the road, while the car travels on along Cook Street.

A collision happened on Friday March 31 between a car and an electric scooter on the intersection of Cook Street and Faulkner Street. Photo: Supplied.

One of the riders who is wearing a helmet is seen initially standing on the road before falling onto the grass kerb. The other rider appears uninjured.

'We were concerned to hear about the two people who were hurt in Friday's hit-and-run and our thoughts are with them,” says Tauranga City Council transport network safety & sustainability manager Anna Somerville.

'As part of our work to improve safety in the Gate Pā, Greerton and Merivale suburbs, we have proposed building a raised pedestrian crossing on Faulkner Street, at the Cook Street intersection.”

The idea of a raised pedestrian crossing for people coming in and out of the two streets was originally proposed at a Gate Pa Advisory Committee meeting between resident representatives, council staff, police and other organisations.

Teisha is delighted at the news and says council staff were visiting their street on Monday.

'They started doing some surveying. The whole idea of publicising Friday's hit and run was about promoting safety for our community.

'The council have been amazing to work with all the way through. They've been very proactive about Gate Pa. We do have such a really good relationship with them.”

Teisha Paratene highlighting where a raised pedestrian crossing needs to be built on Faulkner Street following a collision on Friday March 31 between a car and an electric scooter at the intersection of Cook Street and Faulkner Street. Photo: Rosalie Liddle Crawford.

She says that a raised pedestrian near the intersection will be 'really good because there have been a few people hit there”.

She hopes the raised pedestrian crossing will include an island in the middle to keep pedestrians safer, and also that the ‘Give Way' sign will be changed to a ‘Stop' sign.

'They [drivers] race into Faulkner Street from Cook Street. Originally we had asked for speed bumps on Cook Street.”

She also has footage of a car that sped up Faulkner Street and failed to stop at the intersection.

"It crashed through the fence, backed out and went off down Cook Street. It was captured on our CCTV camera."

As well as a pedestrian crossing, she says speed measures need to be in place.

'There are some measures around city to slow speed down. We need that here because people take a short cut from the hospital along Cook Street into Tom Muir Drive to avoid some sets of lights.

'They also turn from Cook Street right into Faulkner Street cutting the corner, speed down there and lose control. The last car went ploughing into a house near the corner two years ago. Usually it's boy racers going around and around the block speeding. Last time a whole lot of mums came out of the houses and stood on the footpaths as they went past, so they stopped.”

Along with the raised pedestrian crossing, a mid-pedestrian crossing island, and a new ‘Stop' sign, Teisha, who for many months had to use a wheelchair says she has spoken with a council staff member who is in charge of disability planning.

'He's been good to talk to about making the area safer for wheelchair users. I'm hoping when they do the pedestrian crossing that they think about the little lip that meets the road, so that people in wheelchairs don't tip onto their backs. A lot of our community are in wheelchairs.”

Anna says council are working on the design of the crossing.

'We are currently working on what this improvement could look like before we share the preliminary designs and changes with the community later this year. We expect construction could begin in early 2024.”