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Boone County officials debate fixes for dangerous Caledonia Road–Orth Road intersection
Summary
County engineers presented crash data showing rising severe collisions at Caledonia Road and Orth Road and outlined countermeasures from immediate, low-cost changes to a long-term roundabout; the board directed staff to return with a recommended plan.
County Highway Engineer Justin Crone urged the Boone County Committee of the Whole on Feb. 5 to treat the Caledonia Road–Orth Road intersection as a high-priority safety project after a recent string of serious crashes.
Crone presented four briefing sheets: an existing-conditions map, a historical crash analysis, a GIS heat map of county crash hotspots, and a list of potential actions. He told the board that average daily traffic on three legs of the intersection ranges from about 3,000 to 3,700 vehicles, while the east leg carries roughly half that volume. He said traffic on the west leg has grown about 50% over the past decade and that right-angle and rear-end collisions make up the largest share of crashes at the junction.
"We've seen a drastic increase in intersection accidents since 2022," Crone said, noting that the data show the highest number of collisions originate from the west leg entering the intersection. He described two geometry concerns — a roughly 23-degree…
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