Results from survey move Spartanburg closer to safer roads [Video]

Spartanburg County leaders are on a mission to reach zero. As in zero fatal crashes across the county. “There are still some roads I think that people avoid going on. So yeah, protect our tires,” Elizabeth Stephens said. Spartanburg County leaders said there have been 50,000 crashes in Spartanburg County in less than five years, with about 1,000 of those crashes resulting in serious injuries or death.While a new penny sales tax addresses multiple problem roads in Spartanburg, county leaders didn’t want to wait and results from a recent survey could help them get one step closer to that goal of zero.”We are not stopping there. We want folks to know that is just a fraction of our efforts to improve the overall roadway network in Spartanburg County. The safety action plan we’re hoping will help us get federal funding to complete some of those other projects that maybe didn’t …