“We’ve had our guardrail on the northwest corner it’s damaged right now currently. The road commission garage is near the intersection and so workers there have seen a number of those crashes and close calls. Somebody is pulling out in front of somebody that’s coming from on Deerfield Road.” “We’re making the intersection a four-way stop,' Merillat said. S'o it currently exists as a three-way stop but there’s a lot of confusion as to who stopping, who is not, who has the right of way and just reading accident reports and crash data we average about five crashes a year there. I would say that probably 75%-80% of them are people disregarding the stop sign. So the other three stop signs are there. With all the crashes and close calls at the intersection due to the confusion of who is supposed to stop and who is not, the road commission decided to make it a four-way stop. I’ve heard all kinds of rumors in the past as to why that’s a three way, and it’s just a very confusing intersection.' Normally you want to go about 6%, you know, if we’re designing a new roadway, so it’s a little steep coming up to the intersection, but I don’t know if that was the reason why they did that. 'There is a hill there approaching the east. It’s steeper than normal. It’s about a 10% slope to the hill. “I don’t know the historical reason why it was three-way,' said Scott Merillat, the managing director of the road commission. Some have said because there is a hill located where the new stop sign will be located, the road commission never put that stop sign in to account for truck traffic slipping downhill in the winter months. The intersection is located near the Gus Harrison Correctional Facility. Beecher turns into Deerfield at the intersection and is a major east-west road in the county.

The four-way stop is at the intersection of East Beecher Street/Deerfield Road and Parr Highway. ADRIAN - An intersection that was a three-way stop is now a four-way stop after the Road Commission installed the sign Tuesday.

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