A highway tragedy: A 13-year-old girl is killed on PCH, and Redondo Beach responds with an outpouring of love
Ciara Smith’s bicycle at the scene of her accident Friday evening. Photo by Peter Krajewski At approximately 4:40 p.m. last Friday, 13-year-old Ciara Smith rolled her bicycle down a sidewalk curb cut, following a friend, as the two appeared ready to head south across Knob Hill Avenue at Pacific Coast Highway. For reasons unclear, her bike pulled her into the right-most travel lane of southbound PCH, and she was struck by an L.A. Metro bus. She was pronounced dead at the scene, her blue bicycle and its basket laying at the curb. Her friend was unharmed. The busy intersection was populated with many witnesses, and eventually many onlookers. Some were employees of a nearby urgent care facility, some were friends and fellow students at Parras Middle School, where Ciara attended classes. But before the night was over, a memorial had already sprung up at the southwest corner of PCH and Knob Hill, where flowers and candles were laid in honor of Ciara. The night of The collision, Redondo Beach police said, left no sign of being anything but an accident of happenstance. The bus, traveling along the 232 route south to Long Beach, had been traveling at safe speeds, and had a green light to…
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