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MADERA COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Temporary information measures are present successful spot connected a roadworthy that's been the tract of respective deadly crashes successful Madera County.
In summation to the impermanent postulation awesome connected Avenue 12 adjacent Riverstone Boulevard, determination are caller delineators adjacent Road 40 to forestall radical from making unsafe turns.
The California Highway Patrol says since 2021, determination person been 10 deadly crashes connected Avenue 12.
The astir caller happened conscionable past period erstwhile a collision betwixt a car and a large rig near Brittany Robbins dead.
Another accident that happened 2 years agone near Christina McWethy successful a wheelchair and changed her beingness forever.
She took a thrust down the aforesaid roadworthy connected Thursday and believes the existent fixes volition marque a difference.
"I deliberation it volition help. Because arsenic I was driving it I was thinking, 'Man my mishap astir apt wouldn't person happened,'" explained McWethy.
"I mean a car tin spell done the delineators if they truly wanted to, but I deliberation your imaginativeness is benignant of like, it's a wall."
Craig Wiley manages respective farms successful the country and has witnessed a fig of crashes.
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He believes accrued postulation successful the area, on with radical speeding, has contributed to caller wrecks, and besides thinks the existent changes are positive.
"It is going to, I deliberation it's going to dilatory down the accidents adjacent the Riverstone development, I deliberation it's going to help," said Wiley.
The CHP says it has focused connected enforcement for this country arsenic well.
"We had a task unit with our commercialized units passim Madera region and besides successful the country of authorities way 41, avenue 12 and besides successful the surrounding areas focusing connected postulation violations and besides large rigs," said CHP Officer Sergio Moreno.
Madera County Supervisor Jordan Wamhoff says adjacent twelvemonth much changes volition beryllium made to Avenue 12.
"it's gonna commencement astatine six lanes, spell down to 4 lanes, each the mode done Road 40, it's gonna person factual halfway medians, it's going to person crook pockets into further licence stoplights," said Wamhoff.
He's besides urging drivers to debar speeding and distractions.
"Really promote everyone to conscionable recognize that it is simply a unsafe area, and we're moving arsenic accelerated arsenic we tin to marque it a harmless area," Wamhoff explained.
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