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Rossford resident warns of dangerous driving on Jennings Road; council suggests daytime contractor flaggers
Summary
A Jennings Road resident told Rossford City Council that drivers regularly run a stop sign and nearly caused a child’s death; council members suggested daytime contractor flaggers as an interim measure and said they would explore further options.
A Rossford resident urged the City Council on Aug. 11 to address persistent dangerous driving at Jennings Road, telling the council that vehicles routinely fail to stop at a residential intersection and that heavy construction equipment recently came close to striking a child on a motorized scooter.
Diane Wolfe, who gave her address as 264 Jennings, said she frequently records drivers ignoring the stop sign at her corner and described a recent incident in which a child riding a scooter stopped and avoided what she said would have been a fatal collision involving a dump truck and a front-end loader. "I don't want to be the one holding anyone's child as they're injured or dying in my front yard," Wolfe told council during the public comment period.
Wolfe said the problem intensifies during softball and baseball games at the nearby park and that she has seen a marked increase in speed and disregard for the stop signs. She told council she has previously invited city staff and residents to watch traffic from her patio to see how frequent the violations are.
During council discussion, Caroline (council member, recorded in the minutes as Caroline Zukowski/Echol) suggested asking contractors working in the area to post a daytime flagger to control traffic while heavy equipment is present. The council record does not show a formal motion to require flaggers; the suggestion was presented as a possible short-term mitigation measure. The police chief was named in the meeting as a person who could be asked to follow up on enforcement ideas.
No formal ordinance, resolution or specific timetable for further action was adopted at the meeting; council moved later to an executive session on a separate legal matter. The transcript records the concern, the contractor-flagger suggestion as an interim step, and a pledge by staff/council to consider further measures to reduce the hazard.
A follow-up item for staff would be to evaluate enforcement and traffic-control options, coordinate with contractors working on Jennings Road and consider additional measures — such as permanent traffic-calming installations or targeted enforcement — if short-term steps are ineffective.
