Forest Hills Cemetery Sign Still Damaged
The entrance sign at the corner of Philmont Ave. and Byberry Road is an eyesore.
In January a Lower Moreland police officer noticed a gray BMW 530 sitting in the parking lot of the Flower Station across from Wawa at the intersection of Philmont Avenue and Byberry Road.
Nobody was in the car at the time, but police later found 23-year-old Dzianis Betseu, who admitted to driving the car. The story is that while driving, he approached the intersection of Byberry Rd. and his car left the roadway and collided and destroyed The Forest Hills Cemetery sign.
The officer noticed structural damage to Flower Station as a corner of the building was smashed in. Broken glass and plastic was strewn about the rest of the parking lot.
Nearly two months later and the entrance sign still looks the same as it did the night of the accident, Jan. 13.
According to Forest Hills Cemetary, it received $2,300 from the insurance company to help with repairs. The Cemetery is looking into other design options because the rest of the cost will come out of its pocket. Nulty said that number was "not even close" to what it will cost to have a new sign put up.
"There's no timeline, but we're going to get it squared away as soon as possible," Nulty said.
Nulty also said a possibility would be to take the existing structure down while they wait for the new sign.
gerl
2:12 pm on Friday, March 1, 2013
The sign in its present condition shows disrespect to a burial. Hopefully the cemetery owners will proceed to remove the sign.
gerl
Mary
5:47 pm on Friday, March 1, 2013
Not like it is going to be fixed the next day. If you have a problem with the sign being like that why don’t you donate money to help pay for a new one instead of complaining about it. If you do not like seeing the sign messed up, don’t drive passed it.
alan p. bloom
10:11 pm on Friday, March 1, 2013
This cemetary corp owns about 1000 cemeteries nation wide. They surely can afford to fix this sign without donations. I understand this company doesn't give a darn about anything but their bottom line.
Mark Kay
1:58 am on Sunday, March 3, 2013
Are you serious!
This is a corporation which surely has the funds to fix this sign. At least take the $2300 and remove the eyesore. Mary, this is Huntingdon Valley, not Philadelphia. We pay a lot of money in real estate taxes to have a first class community. Where do you live?
Mary
10:49 pm on Monday, March 4, 2013
The bridge on Inverness has been down with a hole in it for at least 3 years. I want my taxes going towards fixing that bridge over a stupid sign. It’s not the townships job to fix the sign. It’s up to the owner what they want to do with it.