West Penn Township will request signs to help make a fatal intersection more secure.

On a 2-0 vote, supervisors Tuesday morning agreed to send a letter to PennDOT requesting the schools signs and agreeing to purchase, place and maintain the signs.

The school bus stop ahead signs would be placed on Summer Valley Road (Route 895) between Archery Club Road and Route 309.

Board Chairman Tony Prudenti was absent.

The vote came after supervisors earlier this month discussed an option to install a flashing signal at the intersection of routes 309 and 895 in the village of Snyders, a location where multiple fatalities and crashes have occurred.

Supervisor Glenn Hummel attended a recent meeting with state reps. Jamie Barton and Doyle Heffley, and PennDOT officials to discuss the safety of the intersection.

In the last few months, two fatal crashes happened there.

Hummel noted that PennDOT recently updated signs on both routes 309 and 895 “to try to add to the awareness of the intersection.”

PennDOT is also studying traffic flows at the intersection, he said.

One suggestion, Hummel said, was for a red flashing light.

The township, however, would incur the estimated $30,000 cost of the light and its installation. There’s a possibility that grant funding would be available.

Hummel said motorists traveling on both roads will see it, even as they drive parts of what he described as “blind knolls.”

PennDOT officials are also mulling other options to have traffic slow down, such as painting, additional signage or even rumble strips.

Hummel and Prudenti thanked Barton and Heffley.

In the meantime, signs that record and display motorists’ speeds have been placed along both roads.