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I-65 barriers are being considered By BRAD DICKERSONGlasgow Daily Times “The cables stretch and gives a little,” he said. “They allow the vehicle that’s crossing to absorb some of its impact in the cables.”
Mike Swift, director of the Barren-Metcalfe County Am-bulance Service, said news that transportation officials are considering installing the cable barriers is “long, long, long overdue.” “My first preference is the barrier wall, but at the same time, after realizing that may not be possible – and it’s certainly a lengthy process – certainly the cable barriers are effective,” he said. Swift has worked a number of fatal accidents on I-65, specifically on a stretch in Barren County between mile markers 43 and 53 that emergency services refer to as “death valley.” Adding barriers would be a step in a direction he would like to go. “It’s been something that we have lobbied for, that I have lobbied for,” Swift said. “I hope they start tomorrow.” Lawson “could almost guarantee” that if the barriers had been in place on March 19, his wife and daughter would be alive today. Like Swift, he is also glad to hear officials are considering the measure. “The news that they’re looking at it is better than the news I had before,” Lawson said. The Associated Press contributed to this report. 
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