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LED Lights Make Busy Highway Safer

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo. (CBS4)- The Colorado Department of Transportation is working on making a stretch of Highway 93 between Golden and Arvada safer by installing LED lights.

Highway LED lights (CDOT)
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CDOT recently installed LED lights in the road between 64th and Highway 72.

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(credit: CDOT)

The same lights have been installed on eastbound I-70 near the U.S. 6 exit. CDOT says since those lights were installed, crashes and injuries are down 50 percent.

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(credit: CDOT)
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