With another fatal crash on a highway east of Calgary, one resident is fighting with the province to add more safety protocols.

A rural intersection east of Calgary is once again in the spotlight after Tuesday’s deadly crash, when a Beiseker man in his 20s was killed.

Residents like Steve Brudige say they’ve been calling for safety upgrades on Highway 9 and 564 for years, and he is frustrated that it’s taken tragedy to get attention.

“It seems consistent that there is something major that happens here every year,” he told CityNews.

Several people have been killed in crashes on Highway 9 over the last two years, including two sisters from France, an Irricana woman, a 51-year-old Strathcona man, and four people from Calgary and the Philippines. • Man in 20s dead in highway crash east o

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