 You need a financial advisor with the freedom to focus on your specific needs. Whatever your goals, Reid Potter can create a game plan tailored to you. Call Reid at 432-0777 at Pikeville, Kentucky to learn more. Since August 8th, there have been numerous accidents near the construction site on North Mayo Trail. In an effort to decrease the number of these accidents, Pikeville Police Department is offering drivers some advice on how to navigate during the congested traffic. We have had some injury collisions. We've had a lot of non-injury collisions too. And it's either a rear-end collision is the most common one within traffic. But we have had some T-bomb collisions of cars coming out from residential neighborhoods along US 23 into the traffic that's already backed up. And we've had some collisions that's happened once people get out of this construction site. And, you know, they've got an open road, so to speak, in front of them, so they pick up a little speed. And we've had a couple of single vehicle accidents beyond the construction zone because of that. So here's what I tell everybody. Everybody is complaining about the construction. Well, the construction has started and it's not going to stop. And they have a job to do. And they're doing something that needs to be done. And a lot of people are upset because it's right when school has started back. You know, this Pikeville Independence started back last week. Pike County starts back this week. And you've got Pikeville and Mullins and Pike Central right there, where that construction is going on. But what people need to do, just like when it rains outside, you need to slow your speed down. You need to give yourself more distance between vehicles. And you might as well not get in a hurry, you know, even on my way down here just now. Obviously, there's, it's a one lane, one lane through traffic. And there was several cars coming up from the left, you know, trying to get to the front of the line and squeeze in. Hey, if you're one of those cars, somebody will let you in eventually, but don't expect people to let you in. That causes accidents too. Although accidents are expected at a major intersection such as the one on Cassidy Boulevard, there are a few ways around it. Officer Branham mentions the possible detours drivers can take to bypass the intersection, such as cutting through Town Mountain Road. Yeah, anytime there's a construction zone, you do expect accidents. You hope that you have a minimal amount of them. But in an area like this at Cassidy Boulevard, we were definitely expecting a lot of accidents. So there's always officers close by to help, you know, clear the roadway, offer medical assistance, and of course, do the collision report. People coming over here to Cassidy Boulevard, there are detours that they can take. They could go Town Mountain to 119 and shoot straight from 119 over on the Cassidy Boulevard. Then they can come back off of Cassidy Boulevard on the 119 and go towards, you know, Belfry or back into town, back towards 460 that way. If they really want to avoid this traffic coming northbound, then there's ways to avoid it. You know, you could come 119 or if you're coming south, they can just turn across the Helen Brown Bridge over there. And they could avoid all that because even though the bulk of the construction is right here south of us where we're at, you're still going to have a lot of traffic backed up on that side because the traffic is moving so slow, especially southbound. For Mountain Top News, I'm Nick Column.