Police park a radar-equipped speed-limit sign on Boyd Avenue after a passing motorist struck a resident's homemade sign urging motorists to slow down on the roadway.
Twenty-five mph; 18 mph; 30 mph; 20 mph — eastbound traffic on Boyd Avenue heading toward Baker Middle School is as inconsistent as fair-weather Detroit Lions fans. Police said the road, which is near the middle school, tends to have more traffic at the beginning and end of the school day. Boyd has no sidewalks, shoulders or curbs between the edge of the road and residents' lawns. "Everyone thinks we are lying," Boyd Avenue resident Jennifer Clark said Wednesday afternoon as motorists approaching a Troy Police Department radar sign on the street applied their brakes. She and other residents on the street have raised safety concerns about vehicle traffic as children walk to school. Authorities and officials from the city and Troy School …
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Baker Middle School
1291 Torpey Dr, Troy, MI
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Rochester Rd & Boyd St, Troy, MI
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Troy police say she was driving 90 mph on I-75 with two kids in the back seat.
A Warren woman charged with drunken driving was going more than 90 mph when Troy police stopped her on I-75 with two children in her vehicle, police said Tuesday. Police Lt. Robert Redmond said the department received a report about 5:45 p.m. Sunday of an erratic driver on I-75 near Adams Road. He said the vehicle didn't initially stop for officers. "Upon approaching the vehicle, officers learned two children were in the back seat," Redmond said in a release. "The children told officers the driver was speeding and that they were going to jump out of the car because they didn't want to die." Police said the driver, Betty Jean Turner, 46, had slurred speech and failed sobriety tests, including a preliminary breath test showing a .23-percent…
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joyce mann
9:04 pm on Sunday, October 16, 2011
Torpey Drive with all of the traffic from the two schools and other things they have going on at the schools 7 days per week! Not to be mean, but I do understand what the people on Boyd are saying about the drivers coming to and from the school; but to close off one street simply means that Torpey and Daley get all the more grief. Your problem now becomes our bigger headache. What has to be done … more ›