A vehicle waits on Branchton Rd while traffic travels State Highway 8 in Slippery Rock Township. At a Monday meeting, supervisors discussed improvements that could be made to decrease accidents at the site. Cary Shaffer/Butler Eagle

SLIPPERY ROCK TWP — Road and traffic improvements were the main topics of the Slippery Rock Township board of supervisors meeting Monday afternoon.

The board discussed culvert projects, road widening and what PennDOT plans to do at the Route 8 and Branchton Road intersection.

The four-way intersection was the site of three vehicle crashes — one of them fatal — during the month of April.

According to supervisor Paul Dickey, a “speed minder” sign was placed along Route 8 in late May and into June to slow traffic traveling north, but no speed study has been conducted at the site.

The intersection uses a blinking yellow light to regulate traffic.

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