AFTER losing his wife in a car accident at a dangerous intersection, a husband spent years advocating for traffic safety.

In a cruel twist of fate, he has been killed in a car crash at the very same intersection he lost his wife to.

Photo of a smiling couple embracing.
Gerry Goldberg was killed at the same intersection where his wife, Andi, lost her life just years priorCredit: 9 News
 
A Google Maps street view image showing a sunny suburban intersection with cars on the road and houses behind a brick wall.The intersection is located in Cherry Hills Village, ColoradoCredit: Google Maps
In May 2024, Andi Goldberg died at the intersection of South Franklin Street and East Belleview Avenue in Cherry Hills Village, Colorado.

In the years since, her surviving husband Gerry, 82, had advocated for a traffic light to be installed at the intersection.

While his advocacy began with a simple petition, he continued pushing for it in other ways, including at a city council meeting just a few months ago.

On Monday, Gerry died at the scene of a two-vehicle collision at the very same intersection, leaving his surviving family and other locals horrified at the coincidence.

“I don’t know what to tell you about that, whether it’s a spiritual thing or exactly just what happened because to have it happen in exactly the same place to me it’s just – it’s almost like science fiction,” said Gerry’s cousin Gloria to local NBC affiliate KUSA.

“I’m very upset by how many deaths there have been at this intersection,” said local Susan Cooper, who didn’t know Gerry but still paid her respects at the crash site on Wednesday, to local ABC affiliate KMGH.

The major roadblock in the change Gerry pushed for in the wake of his wife’s death is the fact that the intersection is on a state highway dividing the cities of Greenwood Village and Cherry Hills Village.

As a result, the Colorado Department of Transportation must approve any changes, but even this doesn’t seem to be enough to make the intersection safer.

Following a study conducted in 2024, CDOT gave its approval to add a light to the intersection per Greenwood Village City Council minutes from a meeting in December, but nothing was done about it.

In a statement to KMGH, city spokesperson Megan Copenhaver pointed to the city’s “increased police patrols and traffic enforcement in the area to promote safer driving behaviors,” but never addressed why the light that could’ve saved Gerry’s life wasn’t installed.