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Lee County hears regional Safety Action Plan after review of 2019–2023 crash data
Summary
Central Pines presented a Lee County Safety Action Plan showing about 8,600 crashes from 2019–2023 with 65 fatalities and 135 serious injuries; staff outlined priority corridors, countermeasures and federal funding options and said a resolution to adopt the plan will appear on the Dec. 15 agenda. Public hearing closed with no speakers.
SANFORD, N.C. — Matthew “Matt” Day of the Central Pines Regional Council of Governments presented the Lee County Safety Action Plan at the Board of Commissioners’ Dec. 1 meeting, summarizing crash data and proposed strategies to reduce traffic fatalities and serious injuries.
Day told the board the county’s 2019–2023 crash record showed roughly 8,600 total crashes and that those crashes resulted in about 65 fatalities and 135 serious injuries. "The goal for this plan was to achieve a 50 percent reduction in the rate of those fatal and serious injury crashes," Day said during the presentation. He described a systems approach that includes safer vehicles, safer speeds, safer…
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