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Public works flags rising fatalities on State Highway 9; ODOT to run a 6-mile road safety audit
Summary
City public works presented a corridor collision review showing declining overall collisions but an uptick in fatal crashes; ODOT agreed to a road safety audit from 36th Avenue SE east to the city limits and staff flagged specific hotspots including 48th Avenue and James Garner Boulevard at Acres.
David, a public-works analyst, presented collision data for State Highway 9 from 36th Avenue SE to the city limits and told the Community Planning and Transportation Committee that while total and non-serious collisions have generally trended down since 2014, fatal collisions are troublingly higher in recent years. “But this is the one that's troubling, the fatal collisions, because that's clearly increasing,” David said.
David said staff asked ODOT (the Oklahoma Department of Transportation) for road safety audits and that ODOT agreed to audit not just 48th Avenue but a six-mile stretch east of 36th. The…
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