Lawrence Carroll of Graysville has had enough and wants something done. For some twenty years he can recall at least a dozen incidents where cars have wrecked on the curve in front of his home on Cherry Avenue crashing into his property. The most recent incident has left his chain-linked fence flattened, shrubbery in his yard destroyed, and the corner of his porch wrecked. As the rain pours Thursday evening, a downspout hangs loose where a column once stood, pouring the water back onto his home.
A couple incidents prior to this most recent one, Graysville's mayor became involved, but Carroll says little came of the city's inquiry:
"H
e brought out some traffic man from Graysville with him, and they looked at the situation. And he said it cost more than Graysville could afford."
Now, Carroll has turned to Jefferson County for help. County Commissioner Bobby Humphryes oversees the Roads and Transportation Departments and hopes they can find a solution.
"This is in the city limits of Graysville, so that presents some complications for us. That's not really in our jurisdiction, but we asked some of our traffic people to go out and look into it and see if anything could be done to help him out," says Humphryes, "It might be something as simple as lowering the speed limit. On the other end, we might be requiring a lot of road work to get that curve straightened out."
