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Amanda Butterfield ReportingA fatal wreck on Lehi's Main Street yesterday has residents angry. Many say lights need to be put in to cut back on all the wrecks that happen on that road, and that's exactly what city officials are working on.
Main Street in Lehi is always busy.
Johnny Revill, Lehi City Councilman: "We just have so many people traveling to Eagle Mountain and Saratoga Springs, most of the traffic we have isn't Lehi residents, it's people trying to get from the freeway to out west."
And if you're hoping to turn onto Main Street, be patient.
Johnny Revill, Lehi City Councilman: "You're going to be waiting a while."
With a junior high right there and an elementary school down the road, school bus drivers have to deal with this several times a day. The Lehi City Council knows this, that's why they've made plans to put a light in.
Johnny Revill, Lehi City Councilman: "It'll help alleviate congestion that people deal with on other intersections of Main Street."
Officials hope the light will make the entire road more safe.
Monday evening the driver of a white car was trying to pull onto Main Street; the driver of a flatbed semi-couldn't stop in time and t-boned the car. The driver and a passenger in that white car died. Police say there was no way the truck driver could have avoided the crash.
City officials hope that by putting in a light, it'll prevents crashes like that, but it may take a while because they've got to even up the intersection, for starters, and they've got to deal with four different property owners.
Tina Morgan: "It takes 20 minutes to get out of my driveway sometimes."
One of them Tina Morgan.
Tina Morgan, Lehi Resident: "Theyr'e going to take a lot of my property and part of my shop, but it will be better for anyone passing through here."
Johnny Revill, Lehi City Councilman: "If everything would fall together, we would love to have it before the school year."
Though they would like to have the new light in by this fall, it will realistically not be for another six months.
