Guardrail to be installed at site where Nunes was located

LYNN – A guardrail will be installed sometime in the next month on Carter Road at the corner where Peabody resident Alice Nunes lost control of her car last December and drove into Flax Pond.Public Works Commissioner Jay Fink said the safety improvement on Carter, a small side street off Broadway, will be done at the request of road residents and Ward 1 City Councilor Wayne Lozzi.?I got a call from one of the neighbors and immediately spoke to Jay Fink,” Lozzi said on Monday.Divers pulled Nunes? car containing her body out of Flax Pond about 50 feet away from Carter Road on Nov. 11 after professional waterway searcher Rick Horgan, a West Lynn native, had used special sonar equipment to locate several dark masses in the pond, one of which turned out to be Nunes? missing black 2007 Lexus.Nunes was reported missing by her family last Dec. 15 when she called her daughter and husband on her cell phone while driving in the vicinity of Wyoma Square.Police do not know how she crashed into the pond but neighbors said the sharp bend in Carter bordering the pond is the location of at least one previous accident. The bend is bordered by a steep embankment that drops into the pond.Fink said the Carter Road guardrail will be added to a list of similar safety barriers slated to be installed by a city contractor on local roadways during the next four weeks.He said guardrails are typically placed on steeply inclined roads or steep drop offs along roads. Fink said the railings are usually installed on busy streets rather than a “small, low-trafficked road” like Carter.?After we talked to police and the ward councilor we said, ?This is a good candidate for a guard rail,?” Fink said.