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Dallin, Utah Online Edition

The Dallin Chronicle

Your News Source in the Land of Hoodoos and Red Rock Canyons

Vol. 1, No. 1  ·  Gus Halloran, Editor-in-Chief

Public Safety

Dallin

Second Crash at the Canyon Road Curve Renews Calls for a Guardrail

Written by Jude Delaney

DALLIN. Hunter Morgan walked away shaken but unhurt Tuesday night after her truck went off the road at the blind curve on Canyon Road, just past the old grain elevator, the same stretch where Nikki Randle crashed years ago. Deputies confirmed the vehicle left the roadway on the curve and came to rest in the ditch; Morgan was checked out at the scene and released.

It's the second time in recent memory that curve has put a car in the ditch instead of on the road, and by Wednesday morning, residents were already saying so at the county building. "Two people I know, personally, have gone off that same curve," said longtime resident Doris Calloway. "At some point that's not bad luck. That's a road that needs a guardrail."

Dallin County Public Works said it is "reviewing the site" but has not committed to a timeline for signage or a guardrail. A county spokesperson said the curve does not currently meet the traffic-volume threshold the county uses to prioritize safety projects, a standard several residents called out by name at Wednesday's meeting as the reason nothing was done after the first crash either.

Nikki Randle, who writes this paper's own It's the Law column, went off the same curve herself several years back. Reached for comment, she didn't hold back. "I hit that curve doing exactly the speed limit, in the daylight, sober, and I still ended up in that ditch," Randle said. "I filed the complaint myself back then. I have the letter they sent back. It says the same thing they're saying now." She said her first call after hearing about Morgan's crash wasn't to a reporter. It was to Morgan herself. "I just wanted to know she was okay. Then I got angry, because I already knew what the county was going to say before they said it."

Randle said she plans to raise the issue formally at the next county meeting, this time with two incidents on the record instead of one. Morgan declined to be interviewed for this story beyond confirming she was unhurt.