NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — Drivers heading down Ashley Phosphate Road may notice something new on the overpass. The city has installed safety railings sometimes called jump guards after a series of tragedies there in recent months.
For North Charleston Mayor Reggie Burgess, the mission is personal.
The thing that impacts me as a mayor, my brother committed suicide. If I could have been in Georgia on I-20 in 1999, I could have prevented my brother from ending his life. That will always be in my mind and in my heart,” Mayor Reggie Burgess, City of North Charleston said.
The changes were implemented following 27 incidents at the site since August of 2023. “When you are about service, then you should always be about the personal welfare of the individuals that you’re serving. So we knew right then that we had a problem,” Burgess said…