SAINTE-ANNE-DE-BELLEVUE – Orange cones aren’t usually a welcome sight, but when Deborah Young saw them lining the new Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue overpass on Thursday, she breathed a sigh of relief.
“I was so glad,” she told Global News.
Young was involved in a violent head-on collision in December that totaled her car and sent her to hospital with a concussion.
The overpass crosses Highway 40 and leads to Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue’s central area, feeding des Anciens-Combattants Boulevard.
The town completed the overpass last fall – something many residents said was a long time coming.
Young argued the signs don’t properly indicated where drivers are supposed to go to get off Highway 40.
She said a friend nearly had a wreck of his own and her husband had a near-miss in the exact same place.
In addition to the cones, the town installed a temporary cement barrier to make the overpass safer.
A permanent median will be built by the summer.