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It’s just after 2 p.m. on a sunny summer day and the intersection of McRae Drive and Millwood Road in Leaside is buzzing with activity.

Everywhere you look there’s children. Not surprising really, given there’s a bicycle camp, a playground, a library; tennis lessons and softball games go on.

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It seems like a normal day.

But it’s not. It’s a week to the day since 7-year-old Georgia Walsh was struck and killed while crossing the road to get home.

On Wednesday, a police accident reconstruction unit is surveying the road. Red and pink ribbons flutter from trees, in memory of Georgia.

Young children are used to bounding freely around this neighbourhood. But that’s an increasingly dangerous practice as the leafy residential roads are throbbing with high volumes of traffic, coming at them from all sides.

Ross McLean, a former traffic cop and driving instructor who lives near here, explains what has gone wrong with this intersection. He’s quick to point out that his observations are based on a general overview of the roads, as police have not said specifically how the fatality occurred.