Business owners along dangerous stretch of Omaha highway call on city for traffic solution [Video]

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) – An Omaha business owner will start the new year trying to clean up a mess left by a drunk driver in 2024.

Another building on the well-trafficked, high-speed stretch of road along Northwest Radial Highway has suffered damage and repairs have to be made.

Right across the street, Byron O’Dowd is still trying to get his building repaired near 50th and NW Radial. First Alert 6 spoke with Byron back in May after a drunk driver left the road and crashed a car into his business, causing major damage. Byron says the driver didn’t have insurance.

“We’re dealing with that right now, I’ve got an attorney that’s supposed to be handling that,” Byron said.

Byron had planned to move his vacuum service and sales business from south 13th Street to his late brother’s location on NW Radial, but he still has a mess to clean up here, and someone …