Municipal officials are calling for a stretch of Highway 7 just east of Peterborough, Ont., to become a Community Safety Zone, to help address a long history of speeders and fatal collisions along the corridor.

On Wednesday, Peterborough County council — which represents municipalities outside the city —voted to support a motion from the Peterborough County OPP detachment board and the Township of Otonabee-South Monaghan.

The motion requests the province to give the approximately four kilometre section of highway from Lansdowne Street to just east of Drummond Line stricter designation.

The stretch of roadway has had multiple fatal collisions in recent years, including three of four family members from Peterborough in a head-on collision nearly three years ago.

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