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Grovetown resident seeks county traffic study after daughter’s serious crash at William Few Parkway intersection
Summary
A Grovetown resident presented a petition of roughly 337 signatures and asked Columbia County to perform a formal traffic-safety evaluation of the William Few Parkway open median near Kroger/McDonald’s; county traffic staff said they have begun analyzing several years of crash data and are considering restricting left-out movements to reduce angle collisions.
A Grovetown resident urged the Columbia County Board of Commissioners on July 7 to commission a formal traffic-engineering evaluation of the open median on William Few Parkway near the Kroger Marketplace and McDonald’s after a serious collision that injured her 17‑year‑old daughter.
Morgan Evans (S20) described a recent T‑bone crash that required extraction by firefighters and a three‑day hospital stay for her daughter, and said she had collected about 337 petition signatures calling for a safety review. Evans asked staff to review five years of crash data, evaluate access management and consider median modifications, and to share findings with the public.
Traffic‑engineering staff (S11) told the board they have already pulled multi‑year crash data (they described three years of data in the meeting) and noted many crashes at the location were classic angle collisions caused by full‑access driveways facing each other (Kroger and McDonald’s). Staff said concepts under review include removing left‑out movements from those driveways (allow left‑in only) to eliminate the most common conflict, while acknowledging such changes can reroute drivers and create different travel patterns.
Staff said they would produce analysis results and recommendations and work with the resident and the traffic‑engineering division on next steps. Commissioners encouraged staff to continue the evaluation and to report back to the board.
Evans said she had been in contact with Jacob Wallace in the traffic engineering division and expressed appreciation that staff had already started data collection.
