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Originally Posted by jimjamuser
In general, it is probably a pretty good tradeoff for a car to have to sit for a few minutes at 10 PM than have a situation when a car turning left can be HIT and people injured or DEAD. DEAD is more PERMANENT that a few minutes delay - last time I checked. When a Senior is involved in a crash, there would likely, on average, be worse physical and medical outcomes. Then we have a whole slew of costly situations. The children and grandchildren of the injured Senior are negatively affected. A spouse may have been at home. We could have HIGH hospital costs and long physical therapy costs.
.......ALL this pain and suffering because someone has NOT upgraded the roads or added more Police to make up for the increasing Village traffic and drivers pushing the limits of speed and hazardous driving. For me, I would choose life over inconvenience !!!!!
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There is no amount of upgrading that will prevent someone from doing something stupid. The thousands who go through that intersection safely each and every day are proof that there is nothing inherently unsafe about the intersection itself. "I couldn't see what was coming but decided to turn anyway" is not the fault of the intersection.
More police? Are you seriously proposing having an officer placed at every intersection in the Villages? On foot or in a car? Maybe you would like them out their with a baton directing traffic through the intersection?
If you insist on choosing life over inconvenience then you insist on eliminating motor vehicles entirely. People die in car crashes every day. People here die in golf cart crashes, often involving an automobile but not always. Want to choose life over inconvenience? Then we'll have to get rid of automobiles and golf carts. Pretty simple.
Or maybe we balance safety with necessity while demanding personal responsibility and educated operators. Stop making excuses for bad choices. Stop blaming the intersection for someone who decides to cross two lanes of traffic without first ensuring there is no oncoming traffic. Stop blaming the driver turning left when an oncoming vehicle chooses to run the red light. Stop insisting we cater to the least common denominator and instead, demand the least common denominator learn to drive.