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Show WILL IT TAKE A FATALITY? The accident on Main street at the intersection of Main and Second South Tuesday of last week should again bring to the attention of the state highway high-way commission the necessity of installing a traffic light at this intersection.. Although the accident was not a fatal one, a woman was injured and the accident could have been prevented had a traffic light been in place. It has been over a year since city official, realizing real-izing the danger of the intersection, contacted the state road commission for a traffic light. A pedestrian pedes-trian literally takes his life in his hands when he attempts at-tempts to cross the highway at this point in the afternoon after-noon especially between 4 and 6. p.m., when it is almost al-most impossible A motorist saves time by going around the two blocks to the traffic lights on Main and Center or the one on fourth South when he desires to get across the highway. Parked cars on Main street in front of the 2-story buildings on three of the four corners of the intersection inter-section necessitates driving almost onto the highway to determine when a run can be made for the other side. ' lVlm0riSLS WHO laVOI X llW-wa-y unuugn xixaixx street at the risk of running down a person on foot, should consider the slight inconvenience of stopping a short time at a red light compared to maiming a person for life or much worse taking a life. A regular traffic, light at the intersection of Second South and Main, with the one at Fourth-South and Main and a regular one on Main -and Center could actually accelerate traffic through town. A motorist now is often required to make five stops through Main street, two for traffic lights, and three for pedestrian lanes. If the pedestrian lanes were eliminated, elimin-ated, or at least two of them and another traffic light placed at the dangerous Second South and Main intersetcion, a motorist could set his speedometer at 25 or 30 miles and drive through at a safer speed for himself and pedestrians. State highway officials are considering rest areas off the highways every few miles as a safety measure so that tired motorists may rest before going on. This move or any other for safety sake is commendable, but .we feel as clo all other citizens of Springville including city officials, that a traffic hazard haz-ard does exist on the intersection of Second South and Main. We believe that state highway commissioners visiting this section any afternoon would be of the same opinion. We hope that the long delayed survey, supposedly supposed-ly needed before anything can be done, is not postponed post-poned until another accident or a fatality occurs at the intersection. |