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guardrail message boards were placed at bridge approaches lowering the speed limit to 40 mph from 50. DOT officials seemed ready to commit to a guardrail 16 months ago, writing to police officials that a barrier would be installed by the end of 2001. But engineers determined that early designs of a guardrail would not stop collisions and could damage the structure of the bridge. This April, an accident at the center of the bridge claimed the life of 40-year-old Scott Schneider, a married father of two from Long Island. Schneider was headed westbound when a driver headed eastbound lost controland slammed into his car.

of five head-on collisions since approved and is expected to be get center of an emergency to hasten the bidding process for the project, said Tom Cocola, a city Transportation Department spokesman. Work should begin in the spring and take 40 to 50 days. "The goal is to prevent crossover accidents and make this stretch of roadway safer," Coco-la said, adding that the agency is planning to replace the bridge with a new $119.5 million span beginning in 2004. Slow progress The News uncovered an August 2000 letter from police officials to former Department of Transportation Commissioner Wilbur Chapman warning of the dangerous conditions. Four months ago, electronic By PETE DONOHUE DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER The city has finally agreed to install a center guardrail on a Brooklyn bridge where several drivers have been killed in head-on collisions.

center guardrail, however, has been represents a woman paralyzed in a July 2000 accident on the bridge. "I only wish it had been done years ago." Where traffic is separated by only an 8-inch-high curb, the steel guardrail would fill a gap on the 1940s drawbridge that, since 1995, has been the site of five collisions that left four drivers dead and a fifth paralyzed. Next month, transportation officials are expected to ask the city controller for a declaration But it probably will take until the spring for workers to install a 200-foot-long guardrail to separate eastbound and westbound traffic on the Belt Parkway's Mill Basin Bridge, transportation officials said. In a special report in May, the Daily News revealed the bridge's deadly danger and unheeded calls by police officials for safety improvements. "I'm thrilled the City of New York finally has taken steps to resolve this deadly condition," said lawyer David Golomb, who Mostly sunny and mild.

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"We believe the person does exist," Curran said. Also charged in the scheme to kill people and collect life insurance payouts is insurance agent Richard James, who is being held without bail. Yesterday, U.S. Magistrate Lois Bloom said the $641,000 worth of property offered by two of Mallay's nephews was not even close to what she had in mind for a bail package, given the seriousness of the charges. Investigators suspect that at least 10 other suspicious deaths in New York City and Guyana may be linked to the scheme.

eo Sewnanan and make their deaths look like accidents. After Sewnanan was found dead in Guyana in 1999 due to ingesting alcohol and ammonia, Mallay, a beneficiary, pocketed more than $200,000, prosecutors charge. A search last week of Mallay's wife's apartment in Woodside, Queens, where Mallay lived, turned up five insurance policies, Curran said. The prosecutor did not identify the man whose name appeared on the $1.5 million policy, but disclosed that it listed his occupation as selling clothes at a flea market. The man's Social Security number has been traced to several different people and his address was in the same housing By JOHN MARZULU DAIIY NEWS STAFF WRITER Federal authorities are trying to locate a mystery man whose $1.5 million life insurance policy was found in the Queens apartment of an ex-con charged in a murder-for-hire scheme.

A federal prosecutor revealed the latest twist in the bizarre case yesterday at a bail hearing for Ronald Mallay in Brooklyn Federal Court. The policy listed Mallay's son, Donald, as the beneficiary, said Assistant U.S. Attorney John Curran. Mallay, 57, is charged with trying to hire hit men to kill two fellow Guyanese immigrants including his own nephew, Hard-.