October 26, 2005
Stop signs lacking at crash site
By Paul Bird
paul.bird@indystar.com
The lack of stop signs at a southern Shelby County intersection may have contributed to a motorcycle-car crash that killed the cyclist.
Warren L. Johnson, 35, Columbus, was killed about 5 p.m. Tuesday at the intersection of Flat Rock Road and County Road 200 West, located a mile northeast of the community of Flat Rock.
Shelby County sheriff's deputy Travis Maloney wrote in a report that Johnson was riding his green 1998 Kawasaki motorcycle east into the intersection of County Road 200 West and hit a southbound car in the passenger-side rear door.
The driver of the car, Stephanie M. Redd, 25, Hope, told Maloney she had slowed before entering the intersection and didn't see the motorcycle until it struck her car.
A witness in another car had stopped for a stop sign, the only one at the three-way intersection, for northbound traffic. She said it appeared neither driver saw each other, according to the report.
Maloney's report said Johnson's motorcycle skidded more than 70 feet prior to hitting Redd's 1984 Oldsmobile.
Flat Rock Road is under construction east of the intersection and barricades prevented all but local traffic continuing east.
Maloney's report noted the lack of stop signs for both southbound and eastbound traffic.
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