ANDERSON TOWNSHIP — For years, Pam Janson has heard the screech of tires, the thump of collisions. She's let teary-eyed teens use her phone to call home in the wee hours. She's seen plenty of people bleeding.

        Now, finally, she can look forward to better sleep: county officials are planning to fix the bad intersection where she lives, Clough Pike at Wolfangel Road.

        The cost will exceed $3 million, but realigning the intersection and adding a traffic light will help reduce accidents, officials say.

        During a recent visit, Ms. Janson beckoned a visitor to the edge of her driveway.

        Cars heading east sweep around Clough, brush the edge of the intersection with Wolfangel, swoosh by her front yard. The speed limit is 40 mph, the road is treacherous. Some cars just barely miss one another as they try to enter Clough from Wolfangel.

        “This pole here,” she continued, pointing at a telephone pole that sits at the edge of the road, “is taken out at least twice a year.”

        After wrecks she's gone out and assumed the role of traffic cop until the sheriff's department arrives. She's seen cars careen into her neighbor's split-rail fence. Last year a bulldozer slipped off a truck and overturned in her yard.

        “I can hear 'em before they hit,” said Ms. Janson, who lives at the corner with her business, PamScapes, a construction and landscaping firm.

        Next year, county officials will begin a $3.3 million project to realign the two legs of Wolfangel so that they line up, rather than offset. They will raise the height of the intersection to improve sight distances and, finally, install a traffic signal there.

        “It is a bad intersection,” said Tim Gilday, of the Hamilton County Engineer's Office. “This should drastically improve the safety of the area.”

        The county has been awarded a $1.5 million state grant to help fund the project, which Mr. Gilday says could be completed by the end of next year.

        While statistics on accidents were not immediately available, the sheriff's department acknowledges it is a bad site, although no fatalities have occurred there in recent years.

        There are deep tire ruts on Ms. Janson's lawn, and her car has been rear-ended as she slowed to pull into her driveway. She has lived there for eight years.

        “What scares me is if a school bus has an accident there,” said Ms. Janson. “It almost happened (Wednesday). If the road is slightly wet or snowy, accidents are inevitable.”

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