Intersection of problems

This story should be about a tragedy that became a rallying cry for a community to start correcting their problems of poor urban design and building themselves more people-friendly spaces. Instead, they literally prosecuted the victim.

An Atlanta pedestrian trying to get to her home across a very wide street from the bus stop with her three small children and her grocery shopping decided to cross with several other transit riders at the intersection near the bus stop instead of walking half a mile out of their way to use the nearest crosswalk. A drunk driver hit them, killing her son and injuring herself and one of her daughters. He was convicted of hit-and-run (a 6-month sentence), she with vehicular homicide (a sentence of up to 36 months).

Tell me, [IN]City, how many things can you see that are wrong with this picture? Even better, how can we solve them?