One year ago, on a sunny May spring Sunday, the four-way intersection of Libby Avenue and Main Street/Route 25 in Gorham was the scene of a multiple vehicle crash. A few years earlier, this same intersection witnessed a violent crash involving a loaded gravel dump truck with a truck that carries large portable steel Dumpsters, resulting in the death of one of the drivers and downed electrical power wires and poles that had recently been installed further back when the Department of Transportation had flashing red lights placed on the Libby Avenue sides of the intersection.

I managed to reach a state traffic safety engineer at the Scarborough Pleasant Hill Road office shortly after the accident. He inconspicuously watched traffic at the intersection on several different days, telling me the most visible problem was the dangerous driving practices of many motorists and the amount of traffic – school buses, heavy trucks, drivers failing to yield or stop on either side of Libby Avenue.

One reason that I called the Scarborough DOT office was to alert them to the fact of a missing yellow-and-black, diamond-shaped sign with a four-way intersection symbol, on the eastbound side of Main Street/Route 25, approaching the intersection with Libby Avenue. The westbound side of Main Street and Route 25 does have a similar warning sign, exactly .10 miles ahead of the intersection.

Now, one year has passed and there is still no warning sign on the eastbound side. But exactly one mile further east at another dangerous formerly three-way and now a four-way intersection at Routes 25 and 237, there are new traffic signals, new curb easement cuts, and new utilities have all been installed for the new Martin’s Point Health Care Center under construction.

I am all for new businesses and new jobs, but where is that missing warning sign?

Dennis Marrotte

Westbrook