From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "No guardrails planned on I-44 near crash site," by Robbi Courtaway--
The rock outcropping is being removed, but no guardrail will be added to the section of westbound Interstate 44 where Kirkwood High School student Edward Harley Strother died in a car crash Jan. 2.
Those are among the conclusions of a recent safety review conducted by the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) to determine if additional engineering improvements could make the highway safer in the vicinity of the Holmes Avenue overpass.
--Posted by Illinois accident lawyer T. Evan Schaeffer of the Brighton Illinois accident law firm of Schaeffer & Lamere, P.C.
Harley was our grandson and we feel that even though Harley should have been wearing a seat belt, as he always did, that a guardrail would have maybe prevented his death and Harley would have been around to tell other teenagers about wearing a seatbelt. His grandmother and I most definitely feel a guardrail would have made a difference and feel St.Louis is not doing what they should do on this decision.
Posted by: Deputy Sheriff Wiley A.Maloney | December 13, 2006 at 06:34 AM