VIENNA — A township intersection that has been the site of gruesome crashes over the past decade could look different in the next several years for motorists, according to Justin Chesnic, public information officer for the Ohio Department of Transportation District 4.

At a Thursday morning meeting in Akron attended in person and remotely by numerous ODOT representatives, Vienna Trustee Phil Pegg and Trumbull County Deputy Engineer Gary Shaffer, ODOT officials presented a safety study and recommended countermeasures for the state Route 82 and Niles Vienna Road intersection.

“We talked to them about this intersection of Niles Vienna, and between 2011 and 2023, there was about 40 crashes at the intersection,” Chesnic said. “Three of them were fatal, 13 had injury crashes.”

From 2019 to 202

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