Black Forest,CO : Community demands answers following deadly crash in Black Forest on October, Tuesday 24th 2017

The whole community of Black Forest is hurting after three people died in a crash on Sunday.

Police say 37-year-old Jennifer Fisher was driving with her daughters, 8-year-old Juliana Fisher and 14-year-old Zoe Fisher, in the car. Authorities say was she was headed north on Milam Road when she failed to stop at the stop sign and crashed into another car in the middle of the intersection.

The community is now asking how many more people have to die before something is done.

The intersection at Milam and Shoup Roads in Black Forest looks like any other rural intersection, but if you ask Ruth Miller, who lives nearby, it’s anything but that.

“Its horrific,” said Miller.

Now at the northwest corner there is shattered glass and mementos of remembrance — and the community is demanding answers.

“When we arrived, there was all these emergency vehicles and police officers, we immediately knew what had happened,” Miller said. “The lives that were lost yesterday were so preventable.”

Now three teddy bears sit as a reminder of the two children and mother who died.

Eighteen months ago, Miller also had a close call in this intersection.

“I could have been hit, he is in a truck, I was in a Prius…the story is written,” she explained.

She said back in the summer of 2016 she reached out to County officials asking to redesign that intersection.

“He responded, he says ‘we’ll get someone out there to look at it,’ but nothing has been done,” said Miller. “I do not believe its an issue of people disobeying the law.”

Miller thinks it’s because drivers are coming up a blind hill and the stop sign is hard to see.

She wants County engineers to do something.

“A larger stop sign, a blinking stop sign, ‘stop’ written on the street,” Miller said. “With terrorism we are supposed to be vigilant, we are supposed to speak up if we see something wrong. I feel like it’s the same thing with safety in our community. You should be able to communicate that and people should respond, take action.”

She and other community members could be driven to protest if no action is taken.

“No more deaths, no more no more,” Miller said.

Another person who lives there told FOX21 he is asking for County commissioners to put a traffic light there.

A GoFundMe page has been set up in the families honor to help pay for funeral services

A vigil for Fisher and her daughters will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, October 24 at the site of the crash.


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Community demands answers following deadly crash in Black Forest