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Resident reports winter traction hazard at Tom McCauley’s Hill, 2018

Also Tom McCauley’s Hill road-safety complaint 2018

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TypeEvent
Dates2018-01-01 – 2018-04-04
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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Event
Dates
2018-01-01 – 2018-04-04
Kind
Road safety report
Eras
Modern era
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transportationpublic-safetyweatherinfrastructure
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Beaver Island

Summary

In February 2018, BIEMS thanked a County Road Commission worker for placing sand at Tom McCauley Hill after a treacherous episode. In April, a resident still reported poor winter traction and vehicles nearly sliding into boulders near a TDS box, while saying they had repeatedly added sand themselves during the winter.

Evidence limits

The two posts show both a reported county response and a later resident complaint, but neither is a formal maintenance, accident, or engineering record.

Sources

  1. BIEMS thanked an unidentified County Road Commission worker for placing sand on the road to the station at Tom McCauley Hill after a treacherous episode. This is a contemporaneous first-person emergency-service acknowledgment, not a formal road-maintenance log or engineering record.
    forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 12 · t012790
  2. A resident reported repeatedly adding sand to the hill during winter and described vehicles sliding sideways toward boulders near a TDS box. This is a first-person hazard report, not a county maintenance record, crash report, engineering assessment, or confirmation of the exact road location.
    forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 12 · t012912

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Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Resident reports winter traction hazard at Tom McCauley’s Hill, 2018”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-tom-mccauleys-hill-winter-road-safety-2018/, accessed [date], citing BIEMS, “Thank you to the person from County Road Commission,” Beaver Island Forum, February 25, 2018. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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