DENTON COUNTY (WBAP/KLIF)- After a series of deadly crashes on Highway 380 in Northeast Denton County, a local woman demands change for safer roads.
Jessica Dunn created a petition after a fatal alleged drag race crash near her Savannah home over the weekend. “The cars flipped and exploded and crashed into the Baylor Medical Center off 380 in Aubrey and took out all of the power lines,” Dunn said. She said this happened because there’s not a lot of police presence on 380 and there’s not a lot of stop lights. She said earlier in the month, two other young drivers died during a head on collision on the road. “I thought to myself how many people have to die for people to take notice? Enough is enough,” Dunn said. The petition received great attention with over 5,000 signatures in 2 days. “There also hundreds and hundreds of impact statements because they’ve lost love ones on 380, they fear for their lives pulling out there or they’re terrified of their kids getting driver’s license and driving out there,” Dunn said. 
The petition addressed to Texas Department of Public Safety asks for more police patrols, more traffic lights and frontage roads near busy residential streets. TXDOT plans to expand 380 and make it safer but those changes are a few years away. “Just little things we can do knowing that the end game is this construction but what we can do now,” Dunn said. Dunn wants to form a coalition to engage all of the entities along 380 (Denton and Collin counties), ask for representation and all be on the same page. “Just talk to local government about small things we can do that’ll have a serious impact,” Dunn said.
For more information on the petition visit https://www.change.org/p/texas-department-of-public-safety-highway-380-safety-changes
