Check it out!
Dig out your map of The Villages (we all have one), and take a look at it. You'll find that those busy intersections in the southwest corner of the villages that have been the scenes of so many serious auto vs golf cart accidents of late, were actually engineered to be congested.
If you live in Tamarind Grove, for instance, and want to go anywhere else in or out of The Villages, you have to go thru the intersection of Tamarind Grove Run/Southern Star/St Charles. There are no other options. So of course it's busy and vehicles turning onto St Charles have a hard time.
Buttonwood and Buttonwood Run, and Pennecamp and Pennecamp Dr are similar situations. But not quite so bad since these are 3 way intersections instead of the 4 way intersection at Tamarind Grove.
I agree you cannot prevent stupidity, but the victims who get killed in these accidents may not be the stupid ones. So let's not stick our collective heads in the sand and just say "it is what it is". Let's try to find a solution!
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