Route Fifty By Daniel C. Vock
JUNE 29, 2023
All over the country, states are looking for ways to reverse the trend, often relying on new technology to do so.
The kick-off to Connecticut’s legislative session this year became suddenly sullen when Rep. Quentin Williams, a 39-year-old from Middleton who everybody knew as “Q,” was hit by a wrong-way driver as he drove home from the governor’s inauguration. His vehicle was “fully engulfed in flames,” according to police. Both he and the driver of the other car died at the scene.
Five months later, Gov. Ned Lamont signed a law requiring the state transportation agency to install wrong-way driving alert systems on at least 120 highway exit ramps. Williams’ colleagues said the measure came in response to his death and the rising number of fatal wrong-way crashes in the state.
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