Making Roads Safer
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Students Call To Make Road Safer After Classmate's Death
UNION COUNTY, N.C. -- There is a new fight to change a road in Union County after a high school freshman was killed in an accident.
County leaders and students are banding together and asking state leaders to make the road safe. The public outcry from the fatal accident has caused North Carolina Department of Transportation to commission a safety study and look at the speed limit, narrowness of the road and no shoulder for drivers.
High school freshman Madeleine Fish was in band with 14-year-old Paulo Pappa, who was killed in the crash three weeks ago on New Town Road. “I’m really scared to drive on this road,” she said.
Weddington Mayor, Nancy Anderson took Channel 9 for a drive to point out the danger spots on New Town Road.
Anderson is working with Fish and two other students to lobby state leaders to widen the road and lower the speed limit.
We’re proposing making New Town Road safer,” Fish said.
“They are working hard, meeting with transportation officials. They are going to take it all the way to Raleigh,” Anderson said.
And for Pappa's family, that means their grief is tempered with hope. “What we’re experiencing is horrible, but if we can prevent that from happening to someone else, (that) makes us feel better,” said Pappa’s sister, Andrea.
Students said, so far, they have collected about 1,200 signatures from people who live along New Town Road on a petition. They are going to take that with them to Raleigh when they meet with transportation officials next Thursday.
NCDOT told Channel 9 that the results of the safety study will be available within the next few weeks.
From WSOC
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