Carnage Alley they call it.

It has been a number of years now since the barriers have been placed on the Highway 401 corridor between Windsor and Tilbury. It has saved many lives. I know from first-hand experience.

Before the barriers were in place I had been called out to the 401 corridor eight to 10 times a year for fatalities due to accidents. I have not been out on a head-on collision since the barriers were put in place.

This really was a godsend that the barriers be put there. I do however fear that Highway 3 will turn into very much the same once the highway is doubled. Drivers will simply drive faster because they can.

The 401 highway barriers were put in place due to the coroner’s inquest into the big pile-up in September 2001 which took the lives of six people and injured many that foggy morning. I hope to never see that again.

I will say that it is very necessary to put the barriers as far down that highway as possible. I hope to see no one else lose their lives due to accidents because of a lack of those barriers in place.

Mark Lesperance, Essex

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