Neighbors frustrated after another weekend of crashes at Cleveland Heights intersection

CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio (WOIO) - It is a reoccurring problem in the City of Cleveland Heights. Cars crashing at the intersection of Fairmount Blvd. and Taylor Street. Most of these crashes ending up with a car in the front yard or in the home of John Gall’s home.

On Saturday and Sunday there were two crashes. Luckily, boulders that the city installed back in November of 2022, stopped the cars from crashing into Gall’s home.

“We are driving by and we see the car up here and we see all the police officers and my daughter-in-law sitting in the back seat and she’s like ‘not again!’,” says Beth Gabele who has lived in the neighborhood with her husband for 42 years. “Now they say they are going to put more boulders, and it does protect Mr. Gall’s house, but it is not going to deter anybody if they are coming full blast down South Taylor.”

In November of 2021, a car traveling 75 mph down South Taylor Street during a police chase, jumped Gall’s curb, going airborne, and smashing through the front of his house.

Gall says he wants the city to come up with a permanent solution. He was told the boulders are temporary, but a year later nothing has changed.

“The last time that it happened, when he lost his garage people were saying you should sell your house, he said ‘who is going to buy it’?,” says Gabele.

Gall says he wants the city to stop cars from turning left on to Taylor Street or an arrow that will signal drivers to slow down. Beth Gabele has another solution. “Guys we need a guardrail, we need signal lights, we need something.”

19 News reached out to the city, and they said a guardrail is not possible because it is not safe. They also said that if you stop cars from turning left, it will cause more U turns and more traffic into town. The city of Cleveland Heights says they are also working toward a solution.

Gall says he has reached out to the city multiple times for this solution but keeps getting the same response. He says he wants more than two boulders because he doesn’t believe they will stop the next car.

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