HARVEYS LAKE -- Harveys Lake officials and PennDOT showed off safety measures at Harveys Lake that were put in place after a jogger was killed by a hit-and-run driver suspected of DUI.
Paula Jones of Factoryville was hit and killed last year while jogging on Lakeside Drive.
Jones isn't the only person who has been hit there.
Michell'e Boice remembers as a little girl, watching a driver hit and injure her brother outside their home on Lakeside Drive at Harveys Lake.
“I had nightmares for years about that,” she said.
Now, as a Harvey’s Lake Borough councilwoman, Boice helped make changes to the winding and narrow road that is Lakeside Drive.
Borough council and police, along with PennDOT and state lawmakers, worked together to lower the speed limit from 35 to 30 mph. Now they also have 30 mph stenciled onto the road, added more signs, and soon will install speed minders.
"If we can prevent a single accident, we've done a good job, and I believe we're going to prevent a lot of accidents,” she said.
But police also point out the responsibility does not just fall on drivers but also bicyclists and pedestrians.
“They also have to follow the rules of the road,” said Police Chief Charles Musial.
Pedestrians have to move off of the roadway when a vehicle is approaching, and bicyclists need to travel as close to the shoulder as they can.
But even if these changes had been in place a year ago, police do not think they would have prevented the death of Paula Jones of Factoryville. The triathlete was jogging around Lakeside Drive last June when police say suspected drunk driver Michael Scavone of Harveys Lake hit her with his car and took off.
Harveys Lake police will also make a stronger push to get drunk drivers off the road.