County Will Put Up Traffic Light Where Cheerleaders Died In Car Accident
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
Pulaski County officials are planning to install a
temporary traffic signal at the intersection where three Sylvan
Hills High cheerleaders were killed in a crash last week.
The three teenagers -- Taylor Hall, Alicia Rix and Jae Lynn
Russell -- died when their car made a turn at the intersection of
highways five and 89 and crashed into an oncoming tractor trailer.
The truck had the right-of-way, but a steep hill makes it hard
to see oncoming traffic. Russell`s mother Becky said the new light
has "been too long a-coming."
The temporary signal could cost $50,000 and take two
and a half months.
