A state official said a fatal crash in Ann Arbor came during an expressway backup caused by the repair of a highway sign. The crash happened Saturday morning on eastbound Interstate 94.
Annarbor.com said the crash killed 43-year-old Sean Desmarais of Ann Arbor and injured two 18-year-olds from Minnesota.
Michigan Department of Transportation manager Mark Sweeney said traffic on the expressway stopped while work crews replaced a sign near US-23. He said the closing lasted about an hour. Desmarais' truck hit a stopped car.
I was headed downtown Detroit at about 8 p.m. Saturday and saw a large detail of trucks working on signs on eastbound I-94. Isn't there a better time to do this? And maybe these signs don't need to be replaced in the first place. A lot of this work is on set schedules. For instance, certain signs may be replaced every 10 years. How about doubling that to 20 years?