A man who was accused of selling counterfeit clothing with his father is speaking out, claiming he is guilty by association and had nothing to do with the crime.

On Thursday around 9 a.m., Muhammad Bobbitt-Salaam, 29, and his father, Abdel Salaam, 48, were arrested at the People's Choice and Discount Clothing store at 531 Avenue of the States in Chester, Delaware County.

Police claim both men were selling counterfeit shoes, clothes, sunglasses and purses bearing the names of designers like Michael Kors, Louis Vuitton, Nike and Gucci.

More than $150,000 in fake merchandise was confiscated by police.

The arrests come after a year-long investigation by Homeland Security agents who enlisted the help of private investigators that went undercover to make purchases at the store, according to the Delaware County District Attorney's Office.

"Both legitimate businesses and consumers are cheated when low-quality fake goods unfairly compete against actual brands of known quality in the marketplace,” said District Attorney Jack Whelan.

The father and son were arraigned shortly after their arrests and charged with trademark counterfeiting and dealing in proceeds of unlawful activities, according to the DA's office.

After being released on 10-percent of $10,000 bail, Bobbitt-Salaam reached out to NBC10 and maintained his innocence.

“I’m not a store owner,” Bobbitt-Salaam said. “I have nothing to do with purchasing or counterfeiting any property. I wouldn’t even know how to go about doing that.”

Bobbitt-Salaam says he wasn’t even there when police initially arrested his father.

“I had just finished a workout when I received a phone call that something was going on at my father’s store,” he said. “I checked it out to make sure everything was okay.”

Bobbitt-Salaam says he watched police search the store from a distance when he was suddenly approached by an officer.

“I told them my name,” Bobbitt-Salaam said. “They put handcuffs on me and sat me against the wall. I asked them what my charges were. They told me to sit there and just wait. I waited and I asked them again but they never told me.”

Bobbitt-Salaam says he was then taken to police headquarters where he was asked a series of questions.

“I answered truthfully,” he said. “They asked me if I worked at the store. I told them ‘no’ and that I was a student pursuing two fields.

Bobbitt-Salaam claims he attends American Beauty Academy and will return to the Delaware County Technical School of Nursing in September to pursue careers In barbering as well as nursing.  While Bobbitt-Salaam says he had nothing to do with any illegal business at the store, he also admits to often going inside.

“It’s my father’s store so of course I would frequent the store,” he said. “Of course I would be there from time to time. There’s a barbershop next door to the store so I’d be in the barbershop practicing my craft.”

After speaking with investigators, Bobbitt-Salaam claims the officers gave him the impression that the charges against him would be dropped.

“They kind of gave me a false hope,” he said. “They didn’t say I was going to be released but they said to just answer a few questions. They hinted that I would be released.”

Bobbitt-Salaam says he was then sent to a holding cell with his father who vouched for his son’s innocence.

“He told them I had nothing to do with it,” Bobbitt-Salaam said. “I told them I had nothing to do with the situation. It just kind of went on deaf ears. They ignored the situation. Next thing you know they sent down charges that they gave to my father then all of a sudden they put the charges on me too.”

Despite the fact that officials conducted a year-long investigation prior to his arrest, Bobbitt-Salaam still claims he was wrongfully arrested.

“If you did a year-long investigation then you would know that I’m really not even at the store because I’m in school,” he said. “To do a year-long investigation and come up with that information makes no sense.”

While the accusations against him and his father have not yet been proven in the court of law, Bobbitt-Salaam, who is pursuing careers in barbering and nursing, claims the damage to his reputation has already been done.

“Due to this situation I can’t even go to school,” he said. “These kinds of accusations, you can’t receive licenses in any of those fields with these kinds of charges. Even if I’m proven innocent, people don’t forget, it’s still there. It puts me in a bind. I just feel like it’s unjust. This has really put me in a deep depression.”

Bobbitt-Salaam admits that he’s been in “minor trouble” in the past but has never faced accusations as serious as the ones he currently faces. While he’s in the process of obtaining a lawyer, he claims he doesn’t plan on taking any legal action.

“I don’t wanna receive any handouts,” he said. “I don’t wanna add anymore wood to the fire. I just wanna be vindicated. I don’t have any ill will towards anyone. They did their jobs. But I just think a mistake was made.”

NBC10 reached out to Public Information Officer Emily Harris of the Delaware County District Attorney’s Office for a response to Bobbitt-Salaam's comments.

“I really can’t comment as to why he would say that,” Harris said. “Those are the charges that stand. He will remain charged until he’s found guilty or innocent in court.”

Bobbitt-Salaam and his father are both due in court on April 29 for a preliminary hearing.

When the Boston Marathon gets underway tomorrow, Dr. Howard Palamarchuk will be there, right beyond the finish line, ready to finish what he started last year.

“We’re going to go back and when we hit that point, we’re going to finish the job this time, just like many people are going back to finish the race,” Palamarchuk said.

That point is the point in the day last year, when two bombs went off, killing three people and injuring 264. It was well after all the elite runners had come through, and right as the biggest group of runners -- what Palamarchuk and some of his students call the ordinary runners -- were about to start crossing the finish line. Many had family and friends who’d gathered there to witness the triumph of making it 26.2 miles.

“You have to almost wonder if they [the alleged bombers] planned it that way,” Palamarchuk said. Although he tries not to dwell on what happened next, there are still triggers that parachute him back into moments of anxiety. Stretchers. The smell of gunpowder or fireworks. A beautiful, clear blue day. The commanding tone of a voice over a loud speaker.

“Going back? It’s feeling very strange,” Palamarchuk said from his office at the Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine four days before the race. This will be his 29th year working the Boston race. Each year, Palamarchuk, who is Director of Sports Medicine at the school, takes a group of 10-12 medical students up to work the race. Most are getting ready to graduate.

“These are the students who’ve given a hard four years of work. It’s like a road trip for them. They have fun,” Palamarchuk said. The Temple group, along with other medical professionals, all work under a tent that runs the size of a city block. After runners finish the race, they can take a detour into the tent to get checked over and treated, if necessary. Palamarchuk fondly refers to it as blister patrol, “because normally that’s really about as bad as it gets.”

But last year, one bomb went off and then another, turning their blister-patrol tent into more like a wartime trauma center.

“When we heard that first explosion, we really didn’t know what it was. There was a lot of confusion at the beginning. And then the second explosion,” Palamarchuk remembers. “It was quiet. Then we started hearing screaming, and then lots of screaming and crying."

Matthew Rementer, one of the Temple med students, remembers those initial moments of uncertainty too. The image that comes back first to his mind is heroic – people running to ground zero, running straight toward whatever was happening.

“The Boston EMS, police and fire personnel took the lead and ran into the street to help bring in the victims,” Rementer said. “You know, most people’s instinct would be to run away.”

Inside the tent, Matt, Palamarchuk and everyone else got a glimpse of what type of injuries were headed their way when regular programming was interrupted for breaking news on the television monitors set up among the workers.

“A student looked at me with pleading eyes, ‘Should we leave? Are we in danger?” Dr. Palamarchuk said. “You fight back fear. It’s just like war, I guess.” He distinctly remembers the voice of a man named John Anderson, the announcer in the medical tent, focusing everyone in that moment of panic.

“He simply said something like, ‘This is not the time to panic. We are all professionals. This is what we’ve trained for.’”

Matt, 26, quickly contacted his mother to let her know something was going on, but not to worry, that he was fine. "I knew she'd be worried." He remembers “everyone coming together; how well everyone functioned in that tent. . .The trauma surgeons and ER doctors helped lead the treatment while everyone stayed calm and just did what they had been trained to do.”

The most critically injured were rushed to trauma centers. People inside the tent gave a lot that day and "we saw some horrible things that day," Palamarchuk said.

After the last patients were moved through, the medical tent was turned over to authorities as part of the crime scene. Matt and the other students headed back to Philadelphia.

“It was difficult coming home that day and I just wanted to stay busy and focus on my daily routine to keep myself distracted. The 10 of us that were up there helped each other heal by discussing that day and how we all handled it. The school also brought in therapists to help us deal with the situation,” Rementer said.

Ally Bress, who was also a third-year podiatry student who wasn't able to make the trip, said it was a very solemn time when Matt and the others returned to school.

“You could tell that they had been through something traumatic and I personally, was not going to ask them about it and waited for them to come talk to me when they were ready. After a few days, everybody started to get back into the regular routines and eventually, some of them started opening up about their experiences,” Bress said.

Dr. Palamarchuk had a week of vacation when he returned, so he spent that time at his home in Bucks County, counting on the comfort of routine. "I have a good family. Good support. My kids are my therapy," he said at the time. Over the past year, he has found that even with a lot of support, there are times when his mind takes him to places he doesn't want to go. For weeks he kept up with the news of the bombings, "almost obsessively. And there were images that I went online and looked at, not in the beginning, but after a little time had passed and sometimes I wish I hadn't, you know. And  there are those triggers that will bring the experience back to me. . .I would say it's been an up and down year of good and bad moments."

Eventually, talk at school turned to making the trip back to Boston for this year’s marathon. This will be Ally’s first trip. When people ask her, “Why go?” her answer comes without hesitation. “To put it simply, why not?”

“I was ecstatic when Dr. Palamarchuk and Matt Rementer said they wanted to return. This is the culmination of four years of hard work and dedication and now, we’re going to be a part of something really special.”  And this year, their trip is paid for in full because the school chose Temple's Sports Medicine Club as one of 8 projects to feature on the Owl Crowd fundraising website.

Ally, 26, said she considers it an honor to be involved. “Unfortunately, these types of threats are a part of our daily lives now and I don’t think we can live in fear every day; if we did, we would be bunkered down in our houses forever.”

Matt, who has always wanted to be a doctor, loves working big races. “I wanted to go back this year to show that we are strong and that nothing will stop us from going out and doing what we love. This race is one of the top marathons in the world and it is a very unique experience to work it.”

Dr. Palamarchuk never questioned whether he’d return either. “Even still, I’m nervous. What bothers me is that what I see now when I imagine walking into that tent is that the stage will be set again for whatever could happen. That’s all I can see. I can’t see the runners coming down the street yet.”

But he can see closure.

“I think it will be like therapy. The idea that we didn’t finish our job, we need to go back and finish what we were meant to finish.”

Regular service has resumed on SEPTA's Market Frankford Line after a small trash fire near 30th Street Station.

Officials say a rubbish fire broke out on the westbound side in a tunnel on 31st and Market Sunday afternoon.

While the fire was quickly placed under control, the El train was shutdown on the Market-Frankford Line both westbound and eastbound between 15th and 40th street stations.

Shuttle buses were used between 15th and 40th. Trolley routes 10, 11, 13, 34, and 36 were also diverted to the 40th and Market street station.

Shortly after 3 p.m., SEPTA officials announced that regular service resumed though passengers may experience some delays.

No one was injured during the fire. Officials continue to investigate the cause.

Also on NBC10.com:

• Man's Legs Severed by SEPTA Train
• SEPTA to Launch Overnight Subway Service

A man is being transported to the hospital after his parachute failed during a skydiving jump Sunday afternoon.

The unidentified man was parachuting with Freefall Adventures in Monroe Township. The incident occured at about 2:30 p.m. near Tuckahoe and Cross Keys Roads.

As the man drew closer to the ground, his parachute did not open. Emergency Medical Services are on the scene and the individual has been transported via helicopter to a hospital.

Rutledge Mayor C. Scott Shields died March 25, 2011 in a Freefall Advenutures accident.

Freefall Adventures describes their skydiving experience on their website: "Taking skydiving from the eXtreme to the mainstream, our skydives are made from 13,500 feet, 35% higher than our competition. Utilizing the latest technology, combined with our specialized skydiving instruction, we can have you in the air making your first skydive within minutes of your arrival."

This is a developing story. Check back for details.

Collingdale Police Chief Robert Adams wants to speak with Conroy Williams.

Adams says Williams is a person of interest in an intentional hit-and-run case.

Police in suburban Philadelphia rushed to the scene of a hit-and-run this morning to find a bloodied man and a crashed sports utility vehicle that appeared to have been intentionally used to run down the victim.

The scene played out Saturday morning just before 5:30 a.m. along the 900 block of Bedford Avenue in Collingdale, Delaware County, Pa.

According to Collingdale Police a Range Rover rammed into a parked white Cadillac as the driver, Joel Witherspoon, was either exiting or entering his vehicle.

The SUV ended up crashed into a nearby Chrysler 300 – no driver in sight.

The victim managed to stumble onto a nearby lawn where he collapsed. Medics tended to Witherspoon and took him to Crozer-Chester Medical Center for treatment for severe head injuries as well as lower body injuries, according to police.

As the victim underwent surgery Saturday morning, police talked to witnesses at the scene.

Those witnesses, along with the victim himself, told police that it appeared the SUV was lying in wait for the victim. Once the man was out of the car, the driver used the Range Rover as a battering ram, witnesses said.

That’s when the driver of the Range Rover hopped out and into a waiting SUV driven by another person. Police said that second SUV was a light color blue and carried a man and a woman away from the scene.

Police say the alleged driver was wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt, but didn’t release any further details about possible suspects in the case.

The rampage left the front and rear driver side doors of the Cadillac damaged, according to police. Witherspoon is in stable condition as of Sunday afternoon.

Anyone with information is asked to contact Collingdale Police.

David Bolner, Owner of Traub Bakery was very surprised to see the Easter Bunny outside of his Prospect Park establishment this morning.

Five years ago one of his younger employees 18-year-old Jessica Dougherty asked him if she could dress up like the Easter Bunny and wave to the passing cars.

“She’s a character,” said Bolner. “I told her I would even buy her the costume.”

This Easter however Jessica is away at Duke University. So who’s in the Bunny suit?

Her brother.

Jessica’s younger brother AJ is now the one bunny hopping and waving to cars on Lincoln Avenue in Prospect Park. Meanwhile, children have been coming in to the bakery, asking for hugs and getting their picture with the Easter bunny.

Watch video of the bunny in the link embedded above.

Four people were injured in an accident on I-295 at exit 20 on Sunday afternoon.

The accident occured about 4:40 p.m. in West Deptford, N.J.

A woman and child were transported to Cooper Medical Center by ambulance.

The left southbound lane remained closed an hour later, but the roadway was clear by 6 p.m.

“Work harder than anyone else.” That’s the advice that really stuck with Bruce Williams. It came from his father James R. Williams, one of the original Tuskegee Airmen of World War II who celebrated his 90th birthday on Saturday.

James volunteered for the Army Air Corps in 1943 while he was a senior at Lower Merion High school. He was trained as a pilot in Tuskegee, Alabama and flew a B-25 Bomber with the 477 Bombardment Group. General Julius Beckton Jr. and fellow Tuskegee Airmen Roscoe Draper came to the party held at the Devon Senior Living Center all the way from Washington D.C. All three men grew up in Bryn Mawr and know what it was like growing up when Jim Crow laws were still in effect.

When they were young there was a “blacks only section” at the Bryn Mawr movie theater. James wasn’t even accepted into the military right away. He told Main Line Today in 2011 that he didn’t let that stop him.

Bruce says that despite this his father never let him use racism as an excuse. “Don’t allow anyone to bring you down.” Bruce used Martin Luther King and Jackie Robinson as models who “never complained.”

“If your football coach tells you to run 4 laps, run 5. If your teacher tells you to read a chapter, read the whole book.”
Jame

himself was testament to this kind of work ethic. In 1946 he was discharged and then went to medical school. After college he went back into the Air Force around 1960 as a doctor during the Vietnam War.

“If you really want to do something you can do anything.” That’s what Bruce said he learned most from his dad. James used to go around to schools with other Tuskegee Airmen and talk to children about their life during World War II. Given his age James is no longer able to travel and do that but his message still resonates.

Bruce didn’t finish college at first but then looking up to his father’s story he decided to go back and now has a job at a telecommunications company.
“He’s not the type to say you did something good,” Bruce said of his dad. “He doesn’t often show his emotions.”

However, surrounded by friends, family, and former army buddies, Bruce said his father “had a smile on his face the whole time which is rare” as he enjoyed good company and reminisced about his long life.

The Camden County Police Department is looking for two missing Camden teens.

Zebedee Matthews, 16, was reported missing Sunday from his home on the 600 block of Benson Street. He is described as a black male, 5’6 ½”, 115 pounds, with brown eyes and black hair. He has been reported missing three times before and is known to frequent Leonard Avenue in Camden.

Michael Edwards, 15, was last seen when he left his home on the 700 block of Berkley Street. He was reported missing Saturday night. He is described as a black male 5’5, 120 points, with brown eyes and black hair. He was last seen wearing a red sweatshirt and blue jeans. He has never been reported missing before and may be in Pennsauken.

Anyone with information on their whereabouts is asked to call the CCPD tip line at 856-757-7042.
 

A Brooklyn 15-year-old was shot in the foot after cutting a line of customers waiting to buy a pair of coveted $250 sneakers Saturday morning, police say.

The boy was shot outside a Foot Locker on Knickerbocker Avenue in Bushwick about 6 a.m. as he and other customers waited outside the store for the chance to buy a pair of Nike Foamposite Pro Premium "Yeezy" shoes, named for Kanye West, police say.

After the boy cut in line, one of the customers left and returned with a handgun, police say. The shooter fired the gun four times, with one of the bullets hitting the 15-year-old in the foot.

The boy was taken to the hospital and is expected to survive, according to the NYPD. The shooter has not been arrested.

Earlier this month, there was nearly a riot after hundreds of people lined up outside a Soho sneaker store for the debut of a different model of Nike Foamposite sneakers, according to the New York Post. The store canceled the sale after customers got unruly.

Students from a New Jersey college are preparing to spend the summer delving into details of a 150-year-old shipwreck in the Atlantic Ocean.
 
The students are to use sonar and other equipment to map the site of the steamship Robert J. Walker, gathering data for divers to use in further explorations.
 
The ship was used by the United States Coast Survey starting in 1848. It went down in 1860 after colliding with another vessel. Twenty people died in the crash.
 
Fisherman found the site 10 miles off Atlantic City in the 1970s and it's been popular with divers ever since, according to The Press of Atlantic City.
 
It's now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Two prep school graduates who prosecutors say had their sights set on running the drug trade on suburban Philadelphia's Main Line have been arrested along with so-called "sub-dealers" for allegedly selling illicit substances in high schools and colleges.

Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Ferman announced on Monday the arrests of Neil Scott and Timothy Brooks and detailed their alleged operation called the "Main Line Take Over Project."

Scott, 25, and Brooks, 18, employed "sub-dealers" at five Main Line high schools and three area colleges who would sell marijuana, hash oil, cocaine and MDMA, a drug commonly known as Ecstasy, Ferman said. Authorities confiscated drugs, cash and guns in a sweep related to the operation, which officials said had been running for the past couple of months, officials said.

“This was not a game. These people were in business, they were in business to make money and they were going to do whatever they needed to do so that no one threatened their business," Ferman said.

The schools involved were the private Haverford School and public high schools Lower Merion High School and Harriton High School in Lower Merion Township, Pa., Conestoga High School in Tredyffrin Twp., Pa., Radnor High School in Radnor, Pa., as well as Gettysburg, Lafayette and Haverford colleges.

Ferman said both men, who are graduates of the prestigious all-boys preparatory school The Haverford School, worked together to "create a [drug] monopoly to high school students in the area." Both men played lacrosse at the swanky Montgomery County private school and coached youth sports leagues, according to Ferman. The DA said Brooks and Scott exploited those relationships to help grow the criminal enterprise.

According to a 100-page criminal complaint obtained by NBC10.com, Scott received bulk shipments of marijuana from California to his apartment in Haverford, Pa. Drugs would also be sent to his parent's home in Paoli and Brooks' home in Villanova, according to the complaint.

Authorities said Scott worked, at one time, at a legal marijuana dispensary in California and used those connections to garner his supply.

Through text messages obtained during the investigation, prosecutors said they learned Scott and Brooks ran the ring like a legitimate business. Scott allegedly coached Brooks, who would in turn supervise the "sub-dealers" inside the high schools.

“The high school sub-dealers were encouraged to develop their business so that they could sell at least one pound of marijuana each week,” Ferman said. "Brooks instructed the dealers to make sure that there was never a drought."

John Nagl, headmaster for The Haverford School, said school officials were notified about an on-going investigation several weeks ago, but were asked not to interfere.

"We focus on developing boys with good character, despite our best efforts, sometimes boys make bad choices," he said. "This was destructive and horrible. And we are deeply saddened."

Nagle said the school, which teaches 1,000 boys in a lower, middle and upper school, does not comment on current or former students. He said he did not know how many students may have purchased drugs through the ring.

“The school is cooperating with the law enforcement investigation," he said.

Spokespersons for the Lower Merion, Radnor and Tredyffrin/Easttown school districts said officials have been made aware of the allegations and that the safety of students is most important. All said they were unaware of the investigation, but will cooperate if asked.

Gettysburg College is conducting an internal investigation, a spokesman for that college said.

NBC10.com also reached out to the other schools involved in the case, but so far we have not heard back.

Ferman said investigators learned about the "Main Line Take Over Project" through confidential informants and conducted a one-day round-up in February. In that operation, prosecutors said they confiscated 8 lbs. of marijuana, 3 grams of hash oil, 23 grams of cocaine, 11 grams of Ecstasy, $11,000 in cash, a loaded handgun, an AR-15 assault rifle and AR-15 style rifle. Most of the contraband came from Scott's Haverford apartment, authorities said.

In addition to Scott and Brooks, seven alleged "sub-dealers" were also charged. They are: Daniel McGrath, 18, a student at The Haverford School; John Rosemann, 20, a student at Lafayette College; Christian Euler, 23, a graduate of The Haverford School and student at Lafayette College; Garrett Johnson, 18, a student at Haverford College; Reid Cohen, 18, a Haverford College student; Willow Orr, 22; Domenic Curcio, 29.

Two juveniles, a 17-year-old Radnor High School student and 17-year-old Lower Merion High School student, have also been petitioned by the DA's office.

Scott, who is being held on $1 million bail, covered his face and shouted expletives at reporters attempting to get comment following his arraignment on Monday afternoon. His attorney declined comment saying he had just gotten the case.

Brook's attorney said the teen "lost his way" and is remorseful. His parents posted the $25,000 bail to release him from jail.

Contact Vince Lattanzio at 610.668.5532, vince.lattanzio@nbcuni.com or follow @VinceLattanzio on Twitter.

It wasn't that long ago that snow blowers and shovels were needed to make a path along the Rehoboth Beach boardwalk to clear away snow drifts from winter storms.

So what a relief it was when hundreds gathered just before dawn to watch the sunrise service for Easter Sunday 2014. 

Even though it was windy, which made for a chilly start to the day,  there were still between 500 and 600 people at the bandstand to witness the event put on annually by the Lewes-Rehoboth Association of Churches.

But people adapted. They came wrapped in blankets or dressed in layers. Just like they had done for most of the last few months.

It'll only be another couple of months before music fills the bandstand during the summer. As our slide show demonstrates we are ready for spring.

You can see the slide show of pictures from the event here.
 

This story is reported through a newsgathering partnership between NBC10.com and NewsWorks.org.
 

Members of the Pennsylvania Senate Transportation Committee met today to hear testimony in support of a Pa. Senate bill proposing the use of automated speed enforcement cameras in Philadelphia.

Senate bill 1211 proposes the installation of cameras along the Roosevelt Boulevard (U.S. 1)  to capture images of vehicles license plates for drivers caught speeding 10 mph or more above the limit. A driver caught violating the speed limit will face a $100 fine.

The committee heard testimony from several transportation experts and local officials including, Philadelphia's Deputy Mayor for Transportation, Rina Cutler, and Philadelphia Police Department Commissioner Charles Ramsey.

Also appearing to testify at the hearing was Tara Banks. Banks is a family member of Samara Selena Banks. Samara Banks and three of her four children were killed when they were hit by a speeding car while crossing Roosevelt Boulevard last July.

While the bill does not indicate specific proposed locations for the cameras, tragic accidents along the 12-lane highway, like the one involving Banks' family, make the Boulevard a likely target for the new devices.

State Sen. Mike Stack (D-Pa. 5th), who introduced the bill in December 2013, has been vocal about Boulevard safety. Shortly after the Banks' family accident, Stack suggested a number of ideas to improve safety including extending the safety corridor limits, reconstructing parts of the roadway and cracking down on drag racers.

Walkers and drivers who frequent Roosevelt Boulevard weighed-in on the proposed camera installations. Many of them said they support the idea.

Local resident Kyle Lorman said he hopes the cameras will help lower the number of crashes occurring along the Boulevard.

"Hopefully it'll stop crashes," he said. "I'm always careful when going across the street, make sure they stop before I'm going because I've nearly been hit a couple of times already."

Curt Searle and Brandon Shivers, both residents who walk along the Boulevard regularly said a crack down on speeding on the highway is definitely needed.

"I describe it as madness, people always in a hurry, like they're going to a fire. They always in a hurry. They don't care about nobody crossing the boulevard," Searle said.

"Hopefully, they slow them down and stop all of this crazy madness. It's a game where people try to cross the street without getting hit."

"I think it's a good idea because this Roosevelt Boulevard is crazy," Shivers said.

According to PennDOT data there were nearly 3,000 crashes and 43 fatalities on the Boulevard in the past five years. 147 of those crashes involved pedestrians.