Mom requires change after her son dies in motorbike crash

LARGO, Fla. – Household and associates of a 22-year-old Navy veteran killed in a Largo motorbike crash final month are rallying for extra security measures on the highway. 

Sean Jennings Jr. was mere blocks away from his mother’s home when he was killed in a crash on Could twelfth on the intersection of Seminole Blvd and 122nd Ave N. 

Since that day, each Monday, his family members have lined Seminole Blvd with indicators advocating for motorcyclists on the highway. 

What they’re saying:

Household pal, Kylie Border mentioned, “look twice, perhaps even look 3 times. Bikes, it is not that they’re going quick, it’s not that they’re rushing. However they’re so small in comparison with a automotive.”

The crash remains to be underneath investigation. 

Jennings’ family members mentioned round 6 p.m. he was on his motorbike touring north on Seminole Blvd when one other automobile, dealing with south, tried to make a left flip onto 122nd Ave N. 

The 2 collided and Jennings was airlifted to Bayfront Hospital the place he died days later.

Sean’s mother, Virginia Bentley, mentioned the intersection must be made safer. 

She mentioned, “The intersection that we’re at, you’re crossing over a three-lane freeway and I want to see no left flip and no U-turn there, as a result of this can be very harmful. We’re out right here each Monday and it’s consistently the identical factor. You possibly can’t see out right here.”

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Bentley additionally believes the realm may benefit from pace monitoring. She mentioned, “I don’t know the place the pace limits are, or perhaps they might put one thing up the place they observe folks’s pace.”

Jennings graduated from Northeast Excessive College’s automotive program and went on to enlist within the Navy as a hearth controlman. 

She mentioned, “He actually was a hero. He was a hero then, and he turned a hero after. He was an organ donor, and he saved many individuals’s lives and that’s actually the form of particular person he was. Each single second of the day he went with no matter it was.”

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