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Wakaw Mayor Steve Skoworodko welcomes this week’s announcement that speed cameras are coming to a dangerous intersection near his town.

It was the only speed camera request the province approved this year.

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Saskatchewan Government Insurance received four applications for nine new speed camera locations — including a request from the City of Saskatoon to add two more cameras to the two that rotate through locations on Circle Drive. It was rejected.

SGI announced this week that speed cameras will be installed at the intersection of Highway 41 and Highway 2,just southwest of the town of Wakaw.

“It’s definitely a high-risk intersection,” Skoworodko said in an interview on Friday. “The community is in favour of it, absolutely.”

Skoworodko pointed to statistics in the SGI news release showing that from 2011 to 2017, there were 31 collisions at or near the intersection, resulting in six deaths and 45 injuries.