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Tuscola Commissioners Take Action to Make Some Roads Safer
Mary Drier
Thu, 15 Jan 2026 12:29:55 EST
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In an effort to try to save lives, Tuscola County Commissioners took action during Thursday's meeting (Jan. 15) to purchase additional traffic safety signals for some intersections.
The board approved the purchase of 12 solar flashing lights to be placed on stop signs and to purchase 24 rumble strips to be placed at six intersections in the county.
The additional warning signals will be placed on Hurds Corner and Deckerville roads.
Irish and Birch Run roads.
Birch Run Road and M-15.
South Hurds Corner and East Bevans roads.
Hurds Corner Road and M-46.
Fairgrove and Vassar roads.
The cost to do that is about $22,000.
Commissioners took that action because their request to have the road commission to do that work was not done.
The other stipulation to that decision was asking the road commission to respond within 72 hours if they will do the work to install the signals.
If the road commission does not respond, the county is prepared to hire a company to do that work.
During the meeting, Ellington Township Supervisor Russell Speirs reported the township also sent a work request to have additional traffic signals at the Hurds Corner Road and Deckerville Road intersection.
According to Speirs, the township is willing to pay to have that work done.
Issues with distracted driving causing crashes became an issue when six members of the Amish community were killed and several others injured, and also when three members of the William Putman family were killed and five other family members injured at another intersection.
Each of those accidents were caused by a distracted driver.
The Putman family has lobbies long and hard for additional safety signals at intersections.
The Putmans also did the research on where the signals could be purchased and the cost of purchasing them.
