A request to install two additional stop signs at the intersection of East Lake Road and Harper Road, to create an all-way stop, was approved Nov. 6 by the Henry County Board of Commissioners.
The county’s Department of Transportation was asked to investigate the matter due to public complaint, and an engineering study was done to see if the location meets the warrants for a multi-way stop as required in the Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices. The accident history was also checked for this location over the five most recent and complete years of data, and six accidents were recorded in the Georgia Electron Accident Reporting System for 2013 through 2017, with four of the six accidents being a collision with an animal or a structure.
County officials noted that there had been numerous complaints and many unreported accidents, which made it an important safety issue.
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