West Penn Township supervisors are hoping that something can be done to make a deadly intersection safer.

One of the options would be to install a flashing signal at the intersection of routes 309 and 895 in the village of Snyders, supervisor Glenn Hummel said.

It’s a spot where multiple fatalities and crashes have occurred.

Hummel attended a recent meeting with state reps. Jamie Barton and Doyle Heffley, and PennDOT officials. He talked about it during Monday’s supervisors’ meeting.

“It was not a public meeting. It was a meeting to discuss the safety of the intersection,” he said.

In the last few months, two fatal accidents 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.

“Those internal studies will either help us in the future to put a (stop) light up there if it warrants it, or do something else with the intersection to make it safer,” Hummel said.

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

“They did put out the idea for us, which they denied before, when we asked to put up a red flashing light there. Yellow on 309, red on 895,” Hummel said. “They gave us the verbal, ‘Yes, you can do that.’ ”

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

“That’s the quickest, first step start to get something done here,” Hummel said.

He 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.

“They’re going to come back and give us some ideas, some plans for us to take on by ourselves to be able to fix it, and hopefully in the future, correct it altogether,” Hummel said.

Hummel and board Chairman Tony Prudenti thanked Barton and Heffley.

“I’m really in awe of those two legislators. I couldn’t thank them enough for how they handled it, their input into it, and then the fact that they all saw that that was a big problem,” Hummel said.

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