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The Georgia Department of Transportation says homemade roadside memorials to people killed in highway accidents will be removed for safety reasons.
The DOT offered this week to install a sign that will list the name of the person who died under the words “Drive Safely, In Memory.” The person who requests the sign must pay $100.
The sign will stand for a year, and then be given to the person who paid for it.
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Memorials live on at RoadSideMemorialSites.com
Very recently in our neighborhood a young woman was killed by a hit and run driver (later caught)as she was in the crosswalk of a major street. Within hours a roadside memorial began to build. I noticed it grow daily.
Now it is gone. Someone came along and removed all the flowers, candles, signs, teddy bears and such.
It could have been preserved at RoadSideMemorialSites.com
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We need this sight
mothers of teenagers killed in road accidents have said they will fight to keep a roadside headstone
in honor of Richard Edwards it will be removed from its site because it was distressing for people and a
distraction to motorists. They have received complaints about the memorial close to the crash site. Richard’s mother said she would fight to keep the stone there. We need RoadSideMemorialsites.com
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In the midst of a state police internal investigation into the removal of a makeshift roadside memorial, the issue is grabbing national attention.
Early on July 18, an unidentified state trooper dismantled and discarded a memorial to Lacey Huskuliak that sat near the entrance to the Kiski Valley state police station along Route 66 in Washington Township. The memorial was erected the day after a June 7 car accident that killed Huskuliak, 17, of Bell. Among other things, it included a 4-foot-tall wooden cross, a dogwood tree, flowers and a shepherd’s staff.
The trooper, after tearing down the memorial, tossed it into the back of a Shank Sanitation garbage truck. The memorial ended up in a landfill, unrecoverable.
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Another reason there is a need for RoadSideMemorialsites.com
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. _ Susie Boyer of Colorado Springs committed a crime in the name of love Sunday.
She sank a cross into the soil just off of Colorado Highway 115 near where her husband died in a motorcycle wreck a year ago. That, according to the official word from the Colorado Department of Transportation, is illegal.
Placing any type of sign or cross on a state highway right of way is against state law, said Carl Sorrentino, spokesman for the Transportation Department. She could be convicted of a misdemeanor and face fines up to $1,000 a day.
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Another Reason for RoadsideMemorialSites.com
You ‘d like to believe people aren’t this mean, but apparently they are. Four times since the spring, vandals have destroyed or stolen a small homemade cross that marks the spot where a young Mount Horeb man was killed by a drunken driver last summer.
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