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Wider Friendship Road has led to a rise in crashes
Nearly 400 crashes have occurred in past year on widened South Hall highway
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Since work on the Friendship Road widening project was completed last summer, the number of crashes on the South Hall County road has increased to nearly 400 in a year’s time.
When the officer arrived for duty through the Highway Enforcement of Aggressive Traffic grant in January, Hall County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Todd Casper had two words: Friendship Road. “I told him I want you to go down there every single day you work. ... He may go down there for an hour, leave, go work somewhere else or some other roadway we’re having complaints on and he’ll go right back for another hour,” Casper said. From June 1, 2016, to June 1 of this year, there have been 385 wrecks on the Ga. 347/Friendship Road corridor.