Five Grayson County roads are at the top of the list for vehicle crashes and injuries resulting from the crashes.

There were four deaths associated with the crashes.

Lance Meredith, with the University of Kentucky Transportation Safety Center and a retired state transportation employee, presented the list last week to the Grayson County Fiscal Court.

Meredith offered the center's advisory help in modifying the worst roads to the court, which decided to review the list and make a decision today (July 24).

Sunbeam Road led Meredith's list with the most crashes, 13 of them. Eight of those crashes resulted in injuries and there was one fatality.

Coming in second in the number of crashes was Bloomington Road with eight, three of which resulted in injuries, but there were no deaths. School House Road also had eight crashes and three injuries, but no deaths.

Hardin Springs Road came in fourth with seven crashes, four injuries and two deaths. It was followed by Dickeys Mill Road, with six crashes, five with injuries and one fatality.

Pleasant View Road showed five crashes, one injury and no fatalities. Roads with four crashes, two with injuries, included Antioch Church, Caneyville Watershed, Lacon Skaggs, Lewis School, Little Clifty Church and McGrew Church roads.

Meredith said he had driven the five worst roads before coming to the meeting, and said some modifications could make them safer. He said his figures covered a 5-year period, “and we're most concerned with the five roads with high crash figures.”

Judge-Executive Gary Logsdon asked if funding for the modifications was part of the UK center's offer of assistance, but Meredith said there was none. He said any modifications would have to come from county road funds. Roads on the list are both county and state.

“But,” he added, “some of the changes aren't going to cost that much, some of them being little more than mowing or removing brush to improve visibility or putting up signs.” He said the five roads he had checked could be modified for less than $10,000, “and some of them well below that.”

Meredith's list had nine roads with three crashes each resulting in 18 injuries and no fatalities. Twenty-five roads had two crashes each, 30 injuries, and two fatalities.

County roads registering one crash each totaled 68, with injuries totaling 26, with 1 fatality on Johnny Frank Road.

Meredith's figures showed a total of 216 crashes, 100 with injuries and seven fatalities. Grayson County has nearly 700 miles of roads.