Five months after a crash that killed a teacher and a five-year-old boy, transportation officials tell News Watch their plans to make a local intersection safer.
Highway officials are making changes to a Moultrie County intersection, where a teacher and a student died in a deadly bus crash last fall.
That crash happened at the intersection of Illinois Route 32 and Bruce-Findlay Road, and killed 5-year-old Tyson Mendoza and teacher Lori Samples.
Today, the Illinois Department of Transportation provided News Watch with a Road Safety Assessment Report on the intersection.
The State Safety Engineer that conducted the survey said options to make the spot safer include, turning the intersection into a round-about, making it a four-way stop, re-designing right turn lanes, and adding more enforcement.
They found many drivers wrongly thought the intersection was already a four-way stop.
An IDOT spokesperson told News Watch the department has already moved guide signs, replaced the LED stop signs with standard signs, and replaced signs explaining that Illinois 32 does not stop.
The spokesperson said IDOT plans to turn the intersection into a four-way stop starting this summer.
He said if that doesn't work, officials could make more changes.
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