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Lincoln County adopts Safe Streets for All action plan to target deadly intersection crashes
Summary
The Lincoln County Board adopted a Safe Streets for All Action Plan that focuses on angle crashes, designates a high-injury network (3% of miles accounting for 75% of serious injuries), and sets a goal to cut serious and fatal crashes by 50% by 2036; the adoption makes the county eligible for FHWA implementation grants.
Lincoln County commissioners voted to adopt a Safe Streets for All Action Plan intended to reduce serious and fatal crashes on county roadways.
Terry Fleck, the county highway superintendent, told commissioners the study began in 2023 with a 17'18 member Study Advisory Team and broad public engagement. Sam Trebilcock of Houston Engineering said the plan's data point to angle crashes on rural and state highways as the leading cause of serious injuries and fatalities. According to Trebilcock, the team analyzed about 5,800 collisions, of which roughly 151 were serious injuries or fatalities; 75% of those serious collisions were concentrated on about 3% of the county's roadway centerline miles, the consultant said.
The plan identifies short-, mid- and long-term countermeasures that favor safety over added capacity, from low-cost striping and wider edgelines to larger intersection redesigns, and sets an outcome goal of a 50% reduction in serious and fatal injuries by 2036. Kyle TenNapel summarized the grant strategy, saying FHWA favors systemic, bundled applications in the $2.5 million-to-$25 million range; Lincoln County intends to bundle five projects (including improvements on County Road 105, roundabouts near County Road 106 and intersection redesigns near Hudson) and apply for implementation funding with a May 26 application deadline.
Commissioner Aarons moved adoption of the resolution and Commissioner Putnam seconded. Roll call recorded Commissioners Putnam, Aarons and Schmidt as voting Yes; the motion carried and the plan was adopted, making Lincoln County eligible to pursue implementation grants. Trebilcock and Fleck said some low-cost countermeasures are underway in 2026 and that larger projects would follow grant awards and later design phases.
Why it matters: the plan concentrates limited resources on a high-injury network and frames near- and long-term investments around measurable safety outcomes and federal grant competitiveness. The commission voted to adopt the plan to position the county for federal funding; any implementation projects funded by grants will return to the commission for final approvals.
