The county tried to save a buck
Similar intersections: Truman Onderdonk submitted this 2016 Google Maps image to show the similarities between the intersection of Church Road and Route 259, at lower left, and the intersection of Beebe and Knox Cave roads, upper right, that The Enterprise wrote about last week. Both intersections have been reconfigured but a gravel crossroad remains in place for each.
To the Editor:
Regarding Tim Tulloch’s story last week, “Parents thankful their children survived a dangerous Knox intersection,” there's an (almost) carbon copy to the intersection of Beebe Road (Route 259) and Knox Cave Road (Route 252) just down Route 252 where it intersects with Church Road (Route 259).
It’s the same scenario but without the ditch.
Personally, I believe county tried to save a buck when they should have ripped out old gravel road, filled in with fill, topsoil, and grass. This is what was done with many other intersection corrections, changing angled feed to a right angle interface, made by both local and state highway crews in many places locally.
Truman Onderdonk