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ODOT to install all-way stop at US 127 and Ohio 18 after safety review; signs set for March 9
Summary
Ohio Department of Transportation officials told the Sherwood Village Council they will install all-way stop signs at the US 127/Ohio 18 intersection following a safety study; signs are expected to be installed March 9 and message boards will precede the change.
Ohio Department of Transportation officials told the Sherwood Village Council on Feb. 18 that they will convert the intersection of U.S. 127 and Ohio 18 to an all-way stop, with signs scheduled for installation March 9 and advance message boards to follow.
The announcement came during the public comment portion of the council meeting when Jason Hoschak, ODOT’s Defiance County administrator, and Kylie Schnipke, who identified herself as an ODOT District 1 manager, summarized a May 2025 safety study of the intersection. Hoschak said the study was initiated after repeated concerns from local law enforcement about safety at the crossing.
Schnipke cited evidence from similar conversions, saying jurisdictions that switched comparable intersections to all-way stops saw a 55% reduction in accidents and a 92% reduction in fatal crashes in the examples she referenced. She also said the intersection recorded 18 accidents between 2023 and 2024.
ODOT staff explained that a traffic signal would require meeting a signal warrant based on traffic counts; while U.S. 127 has enough traffic, Schnipke said Ohio 18 does not meet the warrant threshold, so an all-way stop is the chosen countermeasure. Hoschak told the council new stop signs would be delivered to his office in two days, message boards would be put in place three days later, and installation was planned for March 9.
Why it matters: the intersection is on routes used by local traffic and by through drivers; the council and sheriff’s office had previously raised safety concerns. Converting the junction to an all-way stop is a near-term engineering change ODOT can implement without the traffic volumes required for a traffic signal.
Quotes: “We initiated the safety review after Sheriff Engel raised concerns,” Jason Hoschak said. “The new signs will be in my office in two days and the installation is planned for March 9.” Kylie Schnipke said studies track before-and-after results and cited a multi-jurisdictional example of accident reductions after all-way stop conversions.
The council did not take a formal vote on the signage; ODOT’s timeline and follow-up monitoring were the immediate outcomes announced at the meeting. Council members and staff may expect ODOT to return with before-and-after data as part of routine safety tracking.
