MARYLAND, USA — Maryland highway officials are ratcheting up their commitment to place more signs at a confusing Rockville intersection -- a location where a woman drove in the wrong direction.
“The experience was completely preventable,” Liz Iskow, the driver, said.
Iskow was traveling south on Rockville Pike where it meets Viers Mill Road when she was stopped by two police cruisers late one night in November. She had ended up on the wrong side of the divided highway.
Iskow has now been invited to meet with the head of the Maryland State Highway Administration after her March 6 interview on WUSA9.
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“By sending that to the State Highway Administration, I think it probably put a little more pressure on them to take this more seriously,” she said.
Drivers who frequent the Rockville area know how a small error could yield big issues. The intersection bends in a way Iskow insists is unclear and unsafe. She wants more wrong way signs as well as signs with flashing lights to draw attention to drivers.
“It has to be more obvious,” she said. “I need it to scream at people that you’re going the wrong way.”
Maryland State Highway Administration officials have vowed to make fixes “as soon as possible” in an e-mail to Iskow, rather than a previously promised two-month timeline. It also plans to paint new lane markers on the pavement.
“If I can save one life by having these measures implemented, I’ll feel very grateful,” Iskow said.