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Several barricades blocking unsafe roads, including one near where a Bixby woman died, were removed during last week’s floods, Tulsa County officials said Monday.

“We want to emphasize not to tamper with the barricades,” said Chief Deputy County Commissioner Michael Willis.

“There’s always someone who says, ‘I can drive through this,’ and moves the barrels,” Willis said. “But the conditions may persist or get worse.”

Among the barricades moved, Willis said, was one at 201st Street and Mingo Road, southeast of Bixby. That’s near where the body of Melissa Phillips, 54, was found after her car was swept off the road on Dec. 27.

Willis said it is unclear whether the missing barricade played a part in Phillips’ death.

Also removed were barricades near Avery Drive in Berryhill and between 101st and 111th Street near 33rd West Avenue in southwest Tulsa County.

“Our (road crews) stay on patrol checking on the barriers,” Willis said.

On Sunday, Willis said, an elderly woman drove into a construction site at an industrial park in southwest Tulsa County because someone had removed signs and barricades from the road.