The Nassau County district attorney is turning to New York State for help in finding ways to prevent motorists from driving the wrong way.
District Attorney Kathleen Rice on Monday sent a letter to the state Department of Transportation asking it to consider adding warnings along highways to alert drunk drivers driving the wrong way.
She made the appeal after two wrong-way accidents on Long Island highways last week.
Among Rice’s suggestions: reflective red surfaces on the backs of roadway signs and fog line reflectors that show red to drivers traveling the wrong way.
The DOT has said it already has taken some steps to avoid wrong-way accidents. They include painting arrows on highway on- and off-ramps and fitting ramps with reflectors.