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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Video from a Fresno intersection present seen astir the satellite is sparking alteration astatine a Southeast Fresno intersection.
In the video, an out-of-control car hardly misses a antheral checking the message successful beforehand of his location astatine the Tulare and Minnewawa intersection.
The car came skidding toward his location aft colliding with another.
Ruben Almaraz was capable to leap retired of the mode to debar being hit.
While shocking, the mishap isn't the archetypal he's seen successful beforehand of his home. In fact, helium installed a information camera to seizure incidents conscionable similar this one.
"Every 8 to 12 days, possibly each 1 each erstwhile each different week, basically," Ruben Almaraz, Fresno Resident. "Finally, I decided I saw truthful galore accidents. I conscionable enactment a camera there."
That video caught the public's attention, conscionable days aft the incidental idiosyncratic took it upon themselves to marque their ain changes to the intersection, installing 3 ft precocious halt signs and coating halt lines connected Tulare.
Videos of the changes and Almaraz's information video caught the attraction of metropolis councilmember Luis Chavez and Fresno County Supervisor Chairman Nathan Magsig, who advised against taking your ain measures.
"When residents effort to enactment their ain overgarment down, that does origin challenges. If determination is an accident, determination is the imaginable that individually, the radical who person made those modifications could beryllium held liable for that," said Magsig.
Magsig stopped by Tuesday greeting arsenic crews corrected the amature adjustments, painted implicit the added lines, and prepared for much enactment to amended information aboriginal successful the week, including expanding the visibility of halt signs and adding striping.
Magsig and Chavez said they've had respective conversations astir the intersection, with three-quarters of the intersection being region spot and 1 country metropolis property.
Chavez said the information drivers lone halt connected Minnewawa adds to the information of the intersection. He expects the issues volition lone go worse erstwhile a planned buying halfway is built astatine Clovis and Tulare wrong the adjacent fewer years.
When that buying halfway is complete, Chavez said a stoplight volition beryllium installed successful each directions, but until then, helium wants to spot a halt motion added connected Tulare Avenue, and soon.
"In the meantime I privation to prioritize this and enactment it successful this midyear fund accommodation speech and get that impermanent halt motion that would really dilatory the postulation determination due to the fact that I deliberation the footage speaks for itself, there's been a batch of incidents, a batch of adjacent calls," said Chavez.
Almaraz said if he'd known his videos could punctual alteration this quickly, helium would person shared them sooner.
He said since sharing, he's had dozens of radical reaching retired to connection their support.
"I got an accidental to marque a difference, and not conscionable for myself, but for the community, and mightiness arsenic good spell guardant and bash that," said Almaraz.
Chavez said a preliminary postulation survey has already been conducted by the city, and much volition beryllium done by some the metropolis and county. In the meantime, determination is accrued enforcement successful the area.
Chavez said implicit the weekend, constabulary issued 24 citations successful the country of the intersection.
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