Traffic & Transit

Signs Placed On Route 100 Honor Road Rage Victim Bianca Roberson

The signs urge motorists to drive with compassion, according to a report.

WEST GOSHEN, PA — New signs on Chester County highways honor a road rage victim and urge motorists to drive with compassion.

The signs are in memory 18-year-old Bianca Roberson, the West Chester Rustin High School graduate who was shot and killed last during an incident last summer.

The Daily Local News reports that the signs were put up on Route 100 and Old Pottstown Pike by the Adopt a Highway Litter Control Program.

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The signs reportedly read "In honor of Bianca Roberson Merge with Mercy" and are placed where the roads merge from two lanes to one lane.

The incident spawned a four day, three-state manhunt for the suspect, who ultimately turned out to be David Desper, 29, of Trainer. Desper, his attorney by his side, turned himself in to the West Goshen Police Department on July 2. A trial for Desper is set for some point during September.

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Roberson, who was headed to Jacksonville University in the fall on a four-year merit scholarship to study criminal justice, had just graduated with Rustin's class of 2017.

The Bianca Nikol Roberson Memorial Foundation has been established in her memory. The Foundation aims to raise money for Rustin and Jacksonville University student scholarships, among other causes.

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