DARLINGTON COUNTY, S.C. (WBTW) – An intersection that some people call dangerous is raising concern for residents who live nearby after a deadly crash that killed two people Tuesday night.
“I done seen several accidents out here already,” said David Ingram.
“This intersection here is a major problem,” says school teacher Connie King.
A problem resident say needs to be fixed.
“It’s sad that all of this got to happen. If only the state would just come out here and look at these road to make them more safer,” said Ingram.
“We have lost so many students and young people in the last five years to intersections like this,” says King.
According to a report from SCDOT, nearly 80 collisions were reported near the intersection at Marquis Highway and Swift Creek Road in the last five years.
Residents say most of the concern revolves around what sits above the 4-way intersection.
“Most people don’t even see it. They don’t even recognize it and at night time they don’t even see the little stop sign and stuff. You can just see a little red small thing, but it ain’t nothing that will make people stop,” mentioned Ingram.
King says the blinking lights should be replaced with a traffic light to keep accidents from happening, something she experienced first-hand.
“We need something that is going to stop traffic at a direction. I mean their more likely to stop at a traffic light than a stop sign.”
It’s an intersection residents want to see improved.
“It’s a shame we have to loose lives, parents has to loose kids to have something done,” said King.
News 13 reached out to South Carolina Department of Transportation District 5 Engineer Michael Bethea who says the that DOT have not yet received all of the information in regards to the accident that happened on Tuesday night, but when that information becomes available there may be something in the accident that triggers for future changes to the intersection.
