Local
officials will meet on Sept. 19 with the Wisconsin
Department of Transportation regarding changes to a
dangerous stretch of Highway 68 known as Deadman's Curve.
Fox Lake City Administrator Greg Seefeldt told the Fox
Lake City Council that emergency funding for changes to the
curve has become available.
"There is funding and they are moving forward,"
Seefeldt said.
The DOT has been under pressure from local officials and
residents to make changes to the curve after a series of
accidents over the past seven years claimed at least four
lives. The latest fatal accident claimed the life of a
19-year-old Fox Lake man on Aug. 23.
The DOT acted last year to have larger warning signs and
reflectors installed and the lines in the road repainted.
According to Dodge County Highway Commissioner Robert
Sindelar, the latest plan calls for flattening and
straightening the curve. Design details are still being
worked out and the meeting on Sept. 19 will be followed by a
public information meeting within one month.
Construction will begin in 2002 providing there are no
problems acquiring right of way for the project.
