Residents urge action on dangerous county roads after fatality; commissioners review speed-sign data

Residents told the Oconee County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday that speeding and poor visibility on several rural roads are creating a public-safety threat that contributed to a recent fatal crash. Commissioners and county staff described recent traffic monitoring and said they are pursuing right-of-way work and further study of speed limits and traffic controls.

At the start of the meeting Jeff Morgan, a resident of Watson Springs Road, described frequent speeding on Colm/Cullin Ferry Road, vehicle operators passing on blind hills and a risk from livestock on the roadside. “If somebody's going 80 miles an hour … and they hit a cow, it's gonna be tragic,” Morgan said. His wife, Jenny Morgan, said a son was killed three months…