Posted: 6:51 PM Nov 9, 2010
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CALERA, OK - Drivers on Highway 69/75 will be hitting the brakes soon thanks to new traffic lights being installed Tuesday at two major intersections. While the lights will drastically improve safety, they could cause even more back up on the already congested highway.
Willy Pruitt and his friends at the domino hall in Calera have seen their small town grow up over the years. They not only watched a major highway develop, but then fill up with traffic.
"The traffic is growing 20 times faster than the population," said Pruitt.
Oklahoma Department of Transportation conducted a study not long ago on this stretch of highway through Calera. The study found 153 accidents were reported from January 2007 to December 2009, five of those accidents were fatalities.
"What gets people killed a lot here, is there will be a big truck coming through and a car on the other side of it, and you pull out and you think there's no one on the truck, and there's someone coming and it just broadside you," explained Pruitt.
Two of Pruitt's close friends died in an accident just like that about a year ago. If the lights had been in place, he might not have lost his friends... FULL ARTICLE
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Tue, November 9, 2010
by Crystal Drwenski