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As stated in the Ada County Highway District Roadside Memorial Policy, roadside tributes are intended to provide family and friends of persons fatally injured in traffic accidents the opportunity to memorialize their loved ones.” ACHD further contends roadside memorials are catalysts for spreading public awareness of roadway risks and fatalities. As such, law enforcement and state representatives largely regard roadside memorials as educational and cautionary tales.

As stated in the Ada County Highway District Roadside Memorial Policy, roadside tributes are intended to provide family and friends of persons fatally injured in traffic accidents the opportunity to memorialize their loved ones.” ACHD further contends roadside memorials are catalysts for spreading public awareness of roadway risks and fatalities. As such, law enforcement and state representatives largely regard roadside memorials as educational and cautionary tales.

Flowers and gifts left at roadside tributes. nbc connecticut reporter george coley has that story. >> reporter: if the outpouring of support for residents of newtown could be measured by makeshift memorials throughout the community, it is over flowing. john and his son from pennsylvania stopped to drop off flowers on the way to visiting family in massachusetts. >> we wanted to pay tribute to all of the children, the teachers who lost their lives, you know, in this great tragic event. >> reporter...

The nation as well as this community tries somehow to come grips with the shootsing that took the lives of 26 people including 20 children, all of them 6 and 7-year-old first graders. worshippers filled sunday services today trying to take some solaces in houses of worship across this town of 27,000 people. we saw memorials spring up on front lawns and in roadside tributes. the local art teacher created wooden angels to represent the lives lost in this tragedy. tonight president obama will try t...