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Safe Streets for All consultant outlines crash hotspots and grant timeline for Greenwood County
Summary
Consultant Jamie Kendrick told the county council that 153 serious injuries and 66 fatalities occurred in Greenwood County from 2019–2023, described a high‑injury network, and urged the county to adopt a safety action plan to qualify for an implementation grant due in May; staff said $121,000 remains from an earlier CPST allocation.
A consultant and county staff updated the Greenwood County Council on the Safe Streets for All program, identifying priority corridors and a near‑term grant timeline for implementation projects.
Josh Skinner introduced Jamie Kendrick of Mead & Hunt/Wood Valley Solutions, who said the county used a combination of local crash data (SCDOT/DPS) and community engagement to compile a high‑injury network. Kendrick said Greenwood recorded 153 serious injuries and 66 fatalities from 2019 through 2023, with roughly one‑third of fatalities involving alcohol. He observed that a small share of road segments — about 3.4 percent — account for a large share of the serious incidents.
Kendrick described five core strategies for a Vision Zero‑style safety action plan, including speed management, intersection redesign, school‑area sidewalks and crossings, rural road treatments and access management on commercial corridors. He identified candidate projects such as narrowing wide travel lanes with paint, adding buffered bike lanes on Cokesbury Road, improving crossings near schools and redesigning problematic intersections near Laurel and Wilson.
Staff reported that earlier capital project sales tax funds and other allocations left about $121,000 in the account for this effort and that the Safe Streets implementation grant application will likely be due in the May 1–15 window, with staff and council direction requested by mid‑March to prepare the application.
What happens next: staff will provide the council a fuller report and a draft safety action plan in coming weeks and expects to return for further direction and possible adoption of a Vision Zero‑style plan ahead of the implementation grant deadline.
