West Hartford State Rep. Meeting with DOT on I-84 Safety

By Vincent Salzo (Patch Staff)

Immediately following a single-car crash in which a man died on I-84 East in West Hartford on Aug. 12, State Rep. Joe Verrengia (D-West Hartford) called for a meeting between the state Department of Transportation and local officials, and he got that meeting Thursday morning.

Two days after that fatal crash, Brenda Goodwin, 43, of New Hampshire, waskilled in a motorcycle accident on the same stretch of the highway.

Verrengia told NBC Connecticut that something can be done to make a winding part of the highway safer.

However, a spokesperson for the DOT told NBC prior to the meeting thatspeeding drivers, not the highway, are to blame and that there is no pattern or trend that indicates an infrastructure change would make any difference.

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