GUARD RAIL DOWN – A mangled steel guard rail, damaged in a recent winter automobile accident on the north side of Pruss Hill Road in Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township, near the sharp downhill curve west of Sanatoga Creek and Schaffer Road, has yet to be replaced. On Sunday (Jan. 31, 2010) it was marked only by plastic hazard signs and yellow caution tape.
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I’ve lived here for 30 years. The chicane on Pruss Hill road demands attentive and slow driving. On average the guard rail there has been replaced on the east bound side every 2-3 months. The West bound side shown in your photo only every 6 months or so. This road is narrow and windy. It requires you to slow down. The numbers of accidents is on the increase as the Rupert Road, Pruss Hill and Pleasantview and Bleim are used regularly by commuters running from Gilbertsville, Hanover, Boyertown to Route 422. Many of these drivers speed these roads regularly.
Those that have accidents on that gullied stretch are normally running way too fast, as is evidenced by the length of guard rail damaged.
Slowing down and driving carefully is the only way to traverse this roadway.
I just hope the drivers involved have to pay for the damaged guard rails. There always nice and shiny as they never last long enough to tarnish up….
Slow Down!!! It’s a great place to mangle up your car.
My biggest concern, living close by and using the road to pickup the kids from school etc., is many of the oncoming cars seem to be be over the yellow line and not paying attention. There is no where for me to go when they are coming at me partially in my lane. There is no reason anyone needs to travel so fast there. While another guardrail waits to be replaced, hopefully some of these poor inattentive, speeding drivers may think when they see the rail. Maybe we need to place a fake cross there before someone really is killed there, and they could be the victim of a careless oncoming vehicle.