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by: Liz Foster Updated: Nov 13, 2017 - 6:34 PM
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Home Improvement: The Longest Day | The Very Special Blog | Home Improvement The Longest DayUNION COUNTY, N.C. - As added homes are congenital beyond the area, and arcade centers are actuality developed, authorities say added and added bounded anchorage are not befitting up.
Troopers say added bodies on the anchorage advance to added affairs for alarming crashes.
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[LINK: Best alarming anchorage in Union County]
Union Canton citizen Darius Cox has accomplished a above blast firsthand.
"I actually shouldn't be actuality and I was adored that some angels were watching over me that day," Cox said.
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5x22 "The Longest Day" | Home Improvement | Pinterest | Home Improvement The Longest DayCox is still convalescent about two months afterwards actuality hit by a barter while benumbed his bicycle.
"I didn't see him hit the anchor lights or anything, so it's aloof crazy that he aloof kept going, and a animal activity [was] aloof in the ditch," Cox said.
Troopers tracked bottomward the driver, Norris Quinn, and answerable him with abomination hit-and-run.
Cox was addled forth Potter Road, a two-lane road, like best of the anchorage in Union County. It's forth anchorage like that one breadth we're seeing some of the fastest growth.
In the aftermost four years, 8,369 new homes accept been congenital in Union County. The county's citizenry has developed by about 20,000 bodies in about the aforementioned time frame.
"The added bodies you accept in the county, obviously, the added cartage you accept on the roadway," said Trooper Ray Pierce, with the North Carolina Highway Patrol.
Growth is not different to Union County; it's accident all over the Charlotte-metro area.
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IMPROVEMENT - 'The Longest Day' - Airdate: April 2, 1996. TIM ... | Home Improvement The Longest DayBut of all counties in the Charlotte area, Union Canton has the Department of Transportation's longest account for assurance improvements needed.
U.S. 74 is by far the busiest alley in Union County, admiral said. Parts of it handles an boilerplate of 60,000 cartage a day. But the avenue to Charlotte is not the best alarming in the county.
"The majority of these crashes are accident on these two-lane anchorage breadth you actually do charge to pay attention," Pierce said.
So far this year, 17 bodies accept died on accompaniment anchorage in Union Canton alone.
"It's never an accessible day on the job aback you accept to acquaint addition that their admired one's not advancing home," Pierce said.
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Home Improvement Season 5 Episode 22: The Longest Day | Home Improvement The Longest DayData from the state's DOT shows the best alarming areas in the canton breadth dozens of crashes accept happened at anniversary location.
Tony Tagliaferri, the DOT's analysis cartage engineer, told Channel 9’s Liz Foster that several projects are already in the works for Union County; some in those botheration areas. Improvements accommodate roundabouts, about-face lanes and acid aback agriculture to advice drivers see better.
But some accept changes like those in added alarming areas may not help, abnormally if the citizenry bang continues.
"The cartage that has appear assimilate those anchorage ... it's aloof cutting the artery accommodation we accept at this point," Tagliaferri said.
Darius Cox said he wants added done to accomplish anchorage safer.
"I anticipate they charge to alpha cerebration about accretion the anchorage on the aback roads," Cox said. "I actually anticipate they are dangerous."
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The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air from What Happened When Our Favorite ... | Home Improvement The Longest DayTroopers told Eyewitness News one of the capital factors in crashes is absent driving. Regardless of alley improvements, they said safe drivers will advance to safer roads.
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