The death of a 16-year-old girl following an accident at a Cary intersection has area residents concerned.

They say Greenlevel To Durham Road and Cary Glen Boulevard has been the site of numerous close calls and bad accidents in the past.

Now that there’s been a fatality there, area residents are renewing their calls for the town of Cary to do something about what they say is a dangerous stretch of road.

“Its kind of scary. It’s a wide road and people go quite fast up and down it,” said Foster Thorbjorsen, who has lived in the area for about two years.

As reporters were talking to Thorbjorsen and others about that intersection Tuesday afternoon, another accident happened, as if to illustrate their concerns.

A Mustang traveling along Greenlevel to Durham Road was broadsided, causing the Mustang to spin out of control and land on the sidewalk facing the wrong direction.

“They definitely need a traffic light here because the cars just keep on coming through," said Zakeyah Washington who was walking with her sister near the intersection.

But getting a light there is no easy task.

“It’s a state road, and that’s been our difficulty,” explained Cary Town Council member Jennifer Robinson.

She said the state requires certain criteria be met before it allows a traffic light is installed.

“Traffic volume and wait times are two specific criteria,” she said.

Other factors included accidents.

“We’re trying to determine if the accident that happened on Monday would be one of those types of accidents,” Robinson said.

For the father of Kailee Birdsong, the 16-yr-old who was killed at the intersection Monday, the question about the type of accident that occurred at the site is pretty obsolete.

“This didn’t have to happen,’’ declared Robby Birdsong.  “If there had been a traffic light where it is definitely needed, my daughter would be alive right now.

Councilor Robinson said, even the town gets approval for a traffic light, it takes a very long time to get one in place.

In the meantime, she said Cary is looking at other temporary measures for that intersection like flashing warning lights, a lower speed limit or perhaps four-way stop signs.