Police have identified a homeless pedestrian in a wheelchair killed in a Rockville collision as some raised questions about the safety of the street where he was hit.

Phillip Constantine, 57, was hit at about 11:30 p.m. Saturday while trying to cross the 600 block of East Gude Drive from south to north, Montgomery County Police said. He was hit by a 2011 Toyota Scion xB.

Constantine died of his injuries at a hospital early Sunday.

Constantine was hit outside one of the shelters run by the Montgomery County Coalition for the Homeless (MCCH), where he was a longtime resident.

“It was devastating for us,” said Susie Sinclair-Smith, MCCH’s executive director. “He was someone who had been with us for a long time.”

Sinclair-Smith said that the MCCH has often complained of problems at the crossing of East Gude Drive where Constantine was struck. The crossing has a yellow blinking light that turns into a red blinking light when pedestrians press a button, she said.

“For years we’ve been advocating for a full-service stoplight there,” Sinclair-Smith said. “Cars tend to be speeding along the road, and there’s a major concern they don’t have the opportunity to stop.”

Last year a Montgomery County Department of Transportation road safety audit of East Gude Drive that MCCH participated in identified problems with the area in front of the shelter.

“The majority of pedestrian-related crashes involved pedestrians believed to be clients of the shelters; including one fatality that occurred along eastbound East Gude Drive near Southlawn Lane,” the report read. “The crashes involving shelter clients tended to be clustered at times that correspond to transition hours when clients are coming from or going to the shelters, based on daily scheduled breakfast, dinner, and curfew times.”

The report suggested possibly “coordinating with the shelters to implement a pedestrian safety program for its clients.”

“This could include coordination with individuals from the Street Smart safety program to distribute pamphlets, retroreflective materials, and display posters,” the report said.

Sinclair-Smith, who said another accident Monday near the shelter sent two people to the hospital on Wednesday, said a full-service stoplight would be more appropriate. Though transportation personnel talked to residents about the crossing and provided reflective vests, the population MCCH serves is transient and not necessarily able to hold onto them.

“We did get reflective vests, and we’ve certainly talked to our clients about it,” she said. “But I think they’re not as effective as changing a light because people need to cross the street.”

Police said the circumstances of the accident — including whether Constantine was in or near the crosswalk and what color the traffic light signal was showing at the time — are under investigation by the department’s Collision Reconstruction Unit. No charges have been filed.

Anyone with information regarding the accident is asked to contact detectives at 240-773-6620.