DAYTON — Construction on Interstate 75 near Stanley Avenue is still in full force, and Dayton police urge drivers to slow down in that area.
News Center 7′s Taylor Robertson spoke to a local truck driver who said he sees people speed past him through those construction zones daily. He talked about his own solution to avoid all of the construction on News Center 7 at 6 p.m.
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Jeff Killen said he spends five days a week traveling through this area of I-75. He now takes his own detours to try to avoid driving on I-75 through all of the construction and bad driving.
“A lot of times I’ll go Route 4 and come down to Stanley or I’ll come down to Brandt Pike,” he said. “That right lane’s kind of got a lot of grooves in it so it kind of throws you back and forth.”
Killen said when he’s in his truck, people are constantly flying past him.
“Driving too fast and they are looking at their phones,” Killen said.
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He fears what would happen if someone would crash into him.
“When you’re hauling a bomb, haul gas, so yeah,” he said. “It don’t usually turn out good when a tanker is involved.”
Dayton Police Sgt. Gordon Cairns told News Center 7 that they are seeing speeders in that area as well.
“We had a vehicle doing 81 in that zone. A few days ago, I personally caught a vehicle doing 70,” Cairns said. “If you’re involved in an accident, there are construction workers present and there might be a concrete wall there but that doesn’t stop vehicle parts and pieces from going over that wall or even pushing the wall into the construction workers causing them injury or death.”
With that area of the highway being very narrow, Killen said to keep himself safe, he will take his detour.
“I try to avoid it,” Killen said.
Cairns said the reason the speed limit in that area is 50 miles an hour is to purposely slow down the traffic to make it safe not only for the workers but for driving by them as well.
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