The semi-truck driver involved in last week’s fatal crash in front of Tolles Career & Technical Center was going triple the school zone’s speed limit, authorities said Wednesday.

The truck’s “blackbox” indicated the semi-truck was traveling 60 mph, said Sgt. Roger Cooper of the West Jefferson post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol. In an active school zone, the speed limit is 20 mph.

Zachary George, 18, of Plain City, was killed last Friday while on his way to the school on U.S. Route 42. He turned in front of an oncoming northbound semi and was hit. The crash happened at 8:23 a.m. just as other students were arriving for class.

The driver of the semi, Michael Whetstone, 42, of South Charleston, has not been cited at this time, Cooper said. He noted that it was George who turned left in front of the truck.

The accident continues to be under investigation, he said.

The tragedy prompted U.S. Rep Steve Stivers (R-Upper Arlington) to make a call to the Ohio Department of Transportation. He requested state officials update the district’s school zone signs with flashing lights sooner rather than later.

The district has already been in talks with ODOT to have flashing lights added to school zone signs. Vehicles have previously been clocked speeding during restrictive hours, said Tolles superintendent Kim Wilson.

“For the most part, people don’t slow down,” Wilson said Friday. “I don’t think they do it intentionally. [The current sign] doesn’t get their attention.”

The state approved Tolles’ request to add the lights two years ago, but the lights still haven’t been installed, she said. The district has called twice for a status update, only to be told the state “has the request.”

The stretch of U.S. 42 encompasses four school zones: Tolles, Jonathan Alder High School, Jonathan Alder Junior High and Canaan Middle School.

Nancy Burton, spokesperson for ODOT’s District 6, said Friday that a contract has been awarded for the work. There are 26 schools in seven counties receiving flashing lights under the contract. In Madison County, those schools are Tolles, Jonathan Alder junior and high schools, and Madison-Plains.

Under conditions of the contract, all work must be completed by July 31.

“We don’t tell the contractor an order,” Burton said. “We give them a start date and completion date.”

Stivers said Wednesday he was told the lights would be installed within the next six weeks — hopefully, within a month.

“Sixty mph in an active school zone is obviously unacceptable,” Stivers said.

George was a senior student from Jonathan Alder High School. At Tolles, where he was a second-year student, he was studying welding and fabrication technology.

On Wednesday, flowers placed on the side of the roadway marked the location of the tragic crash.