MILLVILLE — During Third Friday on July 17, officials from the city and the South Jersey Traffic Safety Alliance dedicated Cum­berland County’s Pink Remembrance Tree.

It serves as a reminder to motorists as well as a memorial to all persons killed in motor vehicle accidents in Atlantic, Cape May, Salem and Cumberland counties.

Inspiration for the tree came for the parents of Casey Feldman, a 21-year-old college students who as a pedestrian was struck by a motor vehicle and killed in Ocean City on July 17 last summer.

Feldman’s parents were instrumental in working with the N.J. State Legislature to amend state statues which now require motorists to come to a complete stop and remain stopped while pedestrians are crossing in marked and unmarked crosswalks at intersections.

The new law took effect in April, and since then yellow stanchions noting the law have become familiar uprights on the centerlines of municipal streets.