MARYSVILLE — Marie Vickers found herself having to schedule some emergency home renovations Oct. 26, thanks to a vehicular accident.

At 4 p.m., a van collided with a car nearly head-on, in front of Vickers’ house at 5508 61st St. NE, before veering into her yard, taking out her fence and smashing into her basement, which is partially above ground at the front of her house. At 11 p.m. that night, another vehicle plowed through her next door neighbor’s fence, did a donut in his front yard, and drove off.

Vickers doesn’t see these as isolated incidents. Rather, she has deemed them a consequence of a 35 mph speed limit sign being placed approximately 20 feet ahead of a 25 mph speed limit sign, at the curve in their road.

“My house is quite a long way off the road,” said Vickers, who’s lived in this location since 1985, and cited a history of motor vehicle accidents on the road’s curve.

Vickers has requested previously that the 35 mph speed limit sign be relocated to a point after the curve in the road. She has also asked that the side of the road in front of her house be paved. She attributed past accidents to cars going into those roadside ruts, in one case resulting in a collision with a tree across the street.

Road workers have responded by placing gravel on the roadside when Vickers has called, but she believes that pavement is a more permanent and effective solution.

“Thank God my four grandchildren weren’t out in the yard playing at the time of the accident,” Vickers said. “It hit the house so hard that it filled the air inside with dust.”

Vickers spent much of the following week determining what work would need to be done to repair the house. While a crude barrier of plywood has been used in the short term, to cover the van-sized hole into her basement, she expects that most of the front wall of her house will have to be rebuilt, to restore its structural integrity.

“How many more accidents do we need for this sign to be moved?” Vickers asked.