Saltillo speed limit being reduced, Titterington family says it’s not enough

Posted By: Rachael Miner

rminer@klkntv.com

"Five miles per hour whether that would have made a difference with Brianna, the accident may still have happened but it might not have been as violent of an accident with the 55mph speed," said Dave Titterington, the grandfather of Brianna Titterington.

Titterington lost his 17–year–old granddaughter Brianna along Saltillo Road just west of 68th street back in March.

Brianna’s death prompted thousands to sign an online petition demanding changes be made to the roadway, including lowering the 55 mile per hour speed limit, as several others have also died on the same stretch of road.

Lancaster County Engineer Pam Dingman has been working to find ways to make the road safer, and says lowering the speed limit is a good start, "We don’t just arbitrarily set speed limits we do it based on engineering study and in this case for this corridor of road right now the engineering study says 50 mph is the speed limit the road should be set at."

A speed study conducted by Lancaster County found many drivers were going well over the posted 55 mile per hour speed limit, sometimes in excess of 15 miles per hour over.

Tuesday the Lancaster County Board of Commissioners approved lowering the speed limit along Saltillo from 27th to 70th Streets to 50 miles per hour.

New speed limit signs are expected to be up by the end of the week, but Titterington’s grandfather says 5 miles an hour is not enough, "Is 50 low enough? 45 might be a better solution."

Titterington says adding shoulders and additional signage might be a better solution than lowering the speed limit.

The Lancaster County Sheriff will have extra units out patrolling Saltillo once the speed limit changes at the end of the week.

Any additional changes to Saltillo would require state or federal grant money.

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