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Old 02-23-2010, 09:47 AM
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Default Another Thing To Consider

There was an article in this morning's Daily Sun regarding a man who died in a single vehicle crash which caused damaged to some Village of Caroline homes.

This vehicle was driving on Cherry Lake Road, lost control and collided with several objects including fencing, an electrical transformer, bushes and trees. Parts of the vehicle were scattered across the yards of several homes and even on the roof of one home. A wheel landed nearly four houses from the crash site.

We used to have a patio villa which backed up to Cherry Lake Road. The road was actually above us. As soon as we moved in we realized how easy it would be to have a car end up in our villa some day. We sold the villa.

So when you're looking at a house that backs up to a street, also consider out of control vehicles crashing into your house.

Can you imagine if the vehicle that crashed into the pump house by the Duval gate had crashed into a house instead?