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Prescott City Council Regular Voting Meeting —August 8, 2006 Page 2 Councilman Lamerson inquired about environmental damage and Mr. Park replied Lake Pleasant was a good example where the Minutemen Project and Hunters Who Care got together and cleaned up the trash. The desert areas along the border were especially littered with trash. Councilman Roecker commented he had met with Mr. Park and was very impressed; Mr. Park had a lot of data and the City could learn a lot from him and he could help with its problem. II. PRESENTATIONS A. Dallas Hammit, ADOT Prescott District Engineer, re State Route 69. Mr. Hammit commented he had been the district engineer for one year now. He said that a Hazard Elimination Study had been done on State Route 69 (SR69) and there was a Federal program where State agencies could look up a safety study done in a specific area, but it was not a public document. Mayor Simmons asked why it wasn't a public document and Mr. Hammit replied the information gathered was protected from discovery and that was part of the Federal legislation; the study was done between Milepost 290 to 292 from Stoneridge Boulevard to Sunrise Boulevard; they looked for patterns in the accidents; for each study there was $3 million available to tap from to make improvements to those areas. Mr. Hammit presented the following information: SR 69 Hazard Elimination Study Overview A Hazard Elimination Study (HES) was performed on the section of State Route 69 between mile posts 290 and 292. This is a four-lane roadway with a yellow painted median. There exist seven crossroads within the study section, all are stop controlled. The posted speed limit in this area is 55 miles per hour. There have been a total of 126 reported collisions in this section between October 2000 and October 2005. (Six collisions involved fatalities and 35 involved injury or possible injury). Of the six fatal collisions, four were crossover collisions and two angle/left turn collisions. Three of the four crossover collisions listed drugs or DUI as a contributing factor, the other listed reckless driving as a contributing factor. A thorough review of the Arizona Traffic Accident Report indicated six collision types. These collision types are: 1. Rear End Collisions: 37 collisions (29%) 2. Median Crossover Collisions: 23 collisions (18%) 3. Angle/Left Turn Collisions: 22 collisions (17%)