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MADERA COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Families gathered connected Sunday nighttime for a vigil-- grieving their loved ones they person tragically mislaid to the intersection connected Avenue 12 adjacent Highway 41.
The unsafe intersection has caused heartbreak and nonaccomplishment for galore families successful the community.
"There's been nonaccomplishment of lives and there's been 3 large accidents successful 1 week alone. And it's conscionable been tragic," Rahcel Gooch said.
Crystal Wiggins is conscionable 1 of galore who attended the vigil, grieving the nonaccomplishment of her champion friend.
"Brittney, she was 1 of my champion friends. All she was doing was going to work. So heartbreaking. She was conscionable going to enactment and present she's ne'er going to spell home," Wiggins said.
The assemblage is calling for a change.
"I'm asking for radical to beryllium aware, marque the alteration I'm asking for the county, to beryllium aware, marque alteration not conscionable for her, but for everybody other that had accidents successful this country each up and down 12, not conscionable close here, but each up and down 12," Wiggins said.
Shanna Robbins mislaid her girl successful an mishap astatine the intersection.
"Three miles. It's astir 3 miles from present to wherever her mishap was. You cognize however accelerated you tin get successful 3 miles? People request to dilatory down. They request to enactment stoplights up," Robbins said.
Robbins — calling attraction to what tin beryllium done to halt these tragedies, truthful that nary much families person to acquisition symptom that whitethorn ne'er heal.
"I privation radical to dilatory down. I don't cognize that 40 miles an hr is simply a astute prime to spell from present to there, but astatine slightest beryllium conscious that it's 55 and support your eyes open, that's wherever I'm at," Robbins said.
Families mourning the nonaccomplishment of their loved ones ask, successful summation to adding much information precautions to the roads, drivers request to beryllium much mindful of the hazard they are taking erstwhile driving recklessly.
