TYLER, Texas — Five people are dead after a two-vehicle crash Friday morning on State Highway 110, however, this road isn’t a stranger to crashes.
Neighbors are concerned and frustrated with not only the high-speed limit on this road, but drivers going above the speed limit.
Robert Shaw, of Lindale, said he drives on Highway 110 often.
"They were probably going 75-80 mph, [drove like] they were in a big hurry. Didn’t do them any good because they ended up behind a dump truck and almost rear ended them. So I didn’t do them any good to go around us like that," Shaw said.
And he said it isn’t the first time the road had to be shut down by a tragic wreck.
On Friday, Texas Department of Public Safety troopers were called to the scene of a car crash between a Dodge Charger and a Tahoe. DPS said they believe the Dodge was speeding down the road when it collided head on with the Tahoe.
"We’re not sure on a speed but we do know that it was travelling at an excessive speed, we just don’t know [what] it is yet," said Sgt. Jason Bundy, of Texas Highway Patrol in Tyler.
Both vehicles were left unrecognizable. Bundy said that they are still trying to identify the people inside the Charger, but the two occupants in the Tahoe have been identified.
Neighbors on the road want to see change to stop crashes like these from happening.
Shaw doesn’t think the speed limit is the issue, it’s the drivers. He, like many others, want to see changes made.
"More law enforcement patrol that highway and other highways that are prone to accidents," Shaw said. "Nine times out of ten, that extra 5 mph is dangerous but it’s not beneficial to getting them to where they are going."
Another neighbor said her husband was in the ICU for a month because someone wasn’t paying attention to where they were driving and they ran into her husband’s vehicle on Highway 110.
According to the Texas Department of Transportation, there have been 44 wrecks on Highway 110 from Loop 323 to Grand Saline since the beginning of the year. It's not yet known how many of those were caused by speed.