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Originally Posted by Skybo
One thing to keep in mind terrieb is that the sounds of sirens and presence of EMS vehicles and the helicopter does not necessarily indicate a serious accident, or even an accident at all. Minor accidents and medical events often involve fire trucks as first responders, followed up by EMS vehicles. The helicopter is also used for medical events that don't have anything to do with an accident. It seems to me that since I’ve lived here, there have been relatively few serious accidents for the size of the population. And I think that the mature population around here is, in general, a safer group of drivers than the young drivers encountered in other cities. Really young drivers are more likely to speed, tailgate and drive aggressively.
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This area seems a lot safer in terms of the number and severity of accidents when compared with other places I have lived especially the Tampa Bay area around US19 where I often saw a serious accident every week the 9 years or so I lived there.
The golf carts mixing with the licensed motor vehicles does take a lot to get used to and many Villagers do seem to drive with some abandon of the rules of safety and commeon courtesy.
You just have to be careful when driving around golf carts, walkers, dog walkers, inline skaters, bicyclists, motorcycles, scooters, turtles, gators, ducks, etc.
They have lowered the speeding limit to just 20 m.p.h. in many parts of the Villages which helps.