Protesters continue to call for lights at crash-prone stretch of Hwy 1
Vigil remembers boy, 17, who died in 2013 crash
A Saskatchewan woman whose teenage son died in a highway crash east of Regina has been holding vigils for weeks, calling for traffic lights to be installed.
Wanda Campbell's son Lane, 17, died following a crash on Highway 1 on Aug. 9, 2013.
She and a group of supporters with signs have spent the past five Sundays on Highway 1 (also known as the Trans-Canada Highway) between Regina and Balgonie.
They want to see a traffic light installed right away at the intersection of the Trans-Canada and Highway 362. Although the provincial government is building a bypass with interchanges to make traffic safer in the area, the protesters want action now.
"Our fight and our cause has nothing to do with the bypass," Campbell said. "We want the bypass, of course we want the bypass. But we want to have lights in the interim."
Campbell says it's too late for her son, but she wants to prevent similar tragedies at the intersection.
Other people at the protest on Sunday voiced similar concerns.
"This is a tremendously dangerous situation," said Anne Panter. "We have four intersections along a double-lane highway that ought to be a limited access highway. "And they haven't limited the access."
The provincial government has said it's concerned traffic lights could make that stretch of highway less safe, due to the possibility of more rear-end collisions.
