Three people were taken to WellStar Kennestone Hospital Saturday night after their car crashed with another vehicle on Woodstock Road in Northeast Cobb, according to Cobb Police.
Officer Sydney Melton said in a release Sunday morning that Dorothy Graham, 81, and Victoria Graham, 67, both of Marietta, suffered serious injuries. Cline Graham, 74, of Marietta, had non-life-threatening injuries, Melton said.
Melton said they were in a blue 2008 Honda CR-V traveling westbound on Woodstock Road at 9:44 p.m. Saturday when Cline Graham, the driver, tried making a left turn onto southbound Mabry Road.
The Honda hit a silver 2014 Jeep Wrangler that was heading east on Woodstock Road, according to Melton. She said the Jeep’s driver, Brittany Bonner, 18, of Marietta, did not require medical attention at the scene.
Melton said the crash is still being investigated and that anyone with information is asked to call the Cobb Police Selective Traffic Enforcement Program Unit at 770-499-3987.
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That intersection is hazardous when the arrow is flashing yellow. There is not a clear line of sight long enough to account for the 45mph speed limit (usually the minimum speed limit in practice), and people at that point are jockeying for lanes from the Sandy Plains intersection and the shopping center between the two roads.
What needs to happen (and there have been enough crashes there for this to be a reality) is for that turn signal to hold red like the one at Bowen Road does … which is to say that ||: green turn arrow from both directions (install an arrow coming from Sandy Plains), then the general lights turn green, then the arrow turns red, then all are red, cross traffic runs its cycle :|| . It’s not a difficult concept, it’s not a new concept … but it is a desperately needed concept.