3/31/15
(Cleveland)- White County will be placing guard rails at the bridge on Gene Nix Road where two White County Teens were killed earlier this month. During Monday’s county commission meeting Commission Chairman Travis Turner said, “ to clarify some conflicting information that ‘s being floated around, the county will be placing guard rails on the north and south bound partitions of Gene Nix Road bridge. We will move as quickly as possible, but it has to be done correctly and we have to have these engineering studies completed.”
18-year-old Taylor Swing, and 16-year-old Cecily Hamilton, both of Cleveland, died when their car ran off Gene Nix Road and plunged in to Town Creek on March 15th.
Turner said Gene Nix Road was already included on a list of roads to be upgraded and paved and they are currently doing engineering studies that includes installing the guard rails in the overall road project. To do it properly, Turner said, they will wait for the engineering work to be completed.
