Nicholasville urging state to survey potentially dangerous road

NICHOLASVILLE, Ky. (WTVQ)- Nicholasville’s Mayor and Police Chief say they are worried about the safety of a strip of road in town, and they want the state to do something about it.

They say a lot of car crashes seem to happen on a particular s-curve on Richmond Avenue between South Glencove and Locust Heights. Police estimate in the last five years there have been 35 crashes in the area, most resulting in injuries, and at least one in a death.

“This road is crazy,” Denise Cline said.

She says she has lived on her family farm her whole life.

“This was the house that my Dad grew up in, that I grew up, and my daughter grew up in,” Cline said.

She says she loves the town and the people. What she does not love is the stretch of Richmond Avenue outside her driveway.

“My whole life I can’t tell you how many times people would come up and knock on the door during the middle of the night, how many wrecks we would hear,” Cline said.

She says she knows of a lot of curvy roads in the county, but for some reason she feels many more car crashes happen there. Police say she is not wrong.

“I think it is kind of dangerous,” Officer Kevin Grimes said.

Nicholasville Officer Kevin Grimes says his department estimates in the last five years there have been about 35 wrecks between South Glencove and Locust Heights, 22 of those with injuries and at least one ending in a death.

Officer Grimes says the people who live around that curve have asked the department to support them in asking the state to survey the road. The Police Chief, the Mayor, and a state representative have all asked the highway department to take a look. Cline says she just hopes it will.

“If you lived here and you saw what all happened, you could not do it. I don’t see how you could not do that,” Cline said.

ABC 36 contacted the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet for comment.  A spokesperson says it would be brought up to state engineers next week.