Peel Regional Police are urging all road users to stay alert and follow traffic laws after a deadly 18-hours in Peel in which three pedestrians were killed and another injured.

So far this year 37 have died in collisions on Mississauga and Brampton roads, according to police. That includes 34 motorists, 18 pedestrians and two cyclists. Five of those pedestrians died between Nov. 30 and Dec. 5, two hit by buses and one hit by a truck.

“Sad and preventable” is how Staff Sgt. Gary Carty of Peel's Major Collision Bureau described the events that unfolded Dec. 4 and 5. The most recent victims:

• Dec. 4 – Sheena Szabo, 79, of Mississauga was hit by a truck and killed on a residential Malton street. She was walking south on the road by the curb. The truck was also southbound.