Just as crews are working to finish a signal at the intersection of Hwy 49 and 16, a spike in vehicle accidents there has kept CHP officers busy cleaning up the messes. TSPN reported yesterday on a motorcycle versus car collision that occurred Sunday in the Hwy 49/Hwy 16 intersection. On Monday, the California Highway Patrol reported that Curtis Wade, 48 of Sutter Creek and Geoffrey Bremer, 25 of Ione crashed in this intersection when Wade failed to yield to Bremer who was eastbound on Hwy 16. And last Friday, Esther Magby, 62 of Sutter Creek and Daniel Balos, 41 of Modesto were involved in essentially the same accident when Magby failed to yield to Balos as he was driving eastbound on Hwy 16. Magby suffered minor injuries in the collision. And elsewhere in the county, Eric Holt, 29 of River Pines hit a tree and a fence on Old Sacramento Road when he took his eyes off the road to pour a cup of coffee. When he looked up, he had traveled off the road, into a ditch where his ’97 Neon ultimately struck the tree and fence. Be careful out there!!