Oct 10, 2007

Another accident on US 280, this time at the intersection just east to the one where Gary had his. Fortunately no one killed or maimed this time. You can go to http://www.oanow.com/ and click on the “Citizens Make Call for Action” link to see an article about it (listed as one of the “top stories for October 10th"). The mayor is going to ask the governor to directly intervene and get stoplights put up at these troublesome intersections. At the intersection where Gary had his accident, there have been 34 accidents (for some reason, the police reports divided those into 9 on the north side, 25 on the south side, tho it is the same intersection) since 2004, and there have been another 10 accidents at the intersection just east of that. Gary got a phone call this morning regarding this. The Community Relations Specialist in the mayor’s office is getting together a citizen’s group to call for action. Apparently her own son was killed at one of those intersections.