Women’s group calls on province to crack down on dangerous driving on Blue Shank Road [Video]

People who live along Highway 107 are once more calling on the P.E.I. government to help slow down the traffic as drivers take the popular shortcut to and from Summerside’s southeastern edge.

The Kelvin Grove Women’s Institute has sent a letter to Premier Dennis King and the Department of Transportation to highlight safety issues and call attention to the dangerous driving they say is common on the Blue Shank Road.

Grace Jenkins, the institute’s president, said she has seen at least three or four accidents within just a few months.

“There’s going to be an accident, there’s going to be fatalities, and we need to do as much as we can to shine a light on the safety issues of this highway,” she said.

The letter asks for the kind of solar-powered digital signage that’s being used elsewhere on the Island to try to make people more aware of how …