A Dallas County woman expressed concerns to the commission Monday about a dangerous curve on County Road 33.

A recent accident caused damage to Earnestine Tolbert’s home, which is located on the curve between Five Points and Keith High School, and she wants the commission to do something to prevent it from happening again.

“We’re doing the best we can to have something done about it because of the safety problem there,” said Commissioner Larry Nickles, adding he remembers accidents happening there since he was a child.

“From the time I was 10-years-old, I remember that curve has been a bad curve for a long time. We’ve had probably half a dozen or more fatalities right there in that same curve.”

Tolbert said Alabama State Troopers told her the driver in the most recent accident was driving 100 miles per hour when the vehicle left the road and struck her home.

“The car left the road and ran into the house … and thank goodness she wasn’t home,” Nickles said.

“Her and her husband love to sit on their front porch, as all of us country folks do … and if they had been on the front porch it sure enough would have been a tragedy.”

Nickles said most accidents he can remember happening there have all been speed related.

“It is always from the same thing. People have just been running an irate rate of speed,” Nickles said. “It’s a real, real sharp curve … but people always tend to try to straighten out that curve.”

Nickles said he couldn’t recall how many accidents have happened on the curve, but he said there are one to two fatalities every five to 10 years.

Nickles asked Dallas County Engineer Coosa Jones to look at the curve and determine what they can do to prevent cars from leaving the road at a high rate of speed and doing damage to homes.

Nickles mentioned adding rails to the curve to shield cars away from Tolbert’s house. Nickles said the railing would need to be an estimated 100-foot long at most.

“When they sleep at night you live in terror, and if possible, I’d like to see us do something about it,” Nickles said.

Dallas County Commission Chairman and Probate Judge Kim Ballard asked Coosa to look into a solution and report back to the commission at its next meeting.