Safety Issue...WSJ delivery person driving too fast
 

A month ago I contacted the Sumter Co. Sheriff's office, which apparently was of no benefit, my street is still plagued with a Wall Street Journal delivery person that drives far in excess of the posted 15mph speed limit. The delivery person is a young female driving a tan 2011 Chevy HHR. I cannot read the license plate because she drives too fast to read it and the license plate has a faded plastic cover which obscures the plate. For all those walking between 6:30 am and 7:00 am in the Village of Caroline be ware of this driver.

Call the WSJ, and tell them you want to complain about one of their contractors, if they start to blow you off explain they will be named in the lawsuit.

Perhaps a little more details might help.

Where do you live that the speed limit is 15 mph? I’m assuming you’re in a villa? If so, those roads are not maintained by the county, therefore the sheriffs department would not be able to enforce a speed limit.

it is frustrating that so drivers travel faster than they should on our streets....I'd write to the Publisher of the WSJ and also to whomever is in charge of circulation for central FL...word will trickle down

I live in a villa where the posted speed limit is 10 mph. It is almost impossible to comply with it. It reminds me of the parking garage at a mall up north where the speed limit was 5 mph. I heard that one of those mall cops stopped a lady and said, "Ma'am, do you know how fast you were going? She said no, and he said you were going 7 in a 5 mph zone!"

There's not a single person in the Villages that obeys that posted speed limit..Even community watch

You’re kidding right? EVERYbody goes over 15 miles hours

Parking lots here are 5 MPH. NObody goes 5 MPH in parking lot vehicles idle at 7 to 8 MPH or faster if you got the A/C on.. besides it hard to even measure speed at 5 MPH.

Wow. Overreact much?

Not even the Sheriff or Police obey speed limts here.

Ups, FedEx, USPO truck, think 45 in a 30 is the normal. And if they can floor it 5 car length back to beat the already merging carts, they get frogger points

They don’t have to, who going give them ticket?

get a radar detector -- then you can really play cop

I would be more concerned about the line of cyclist that blow though stops signs and intersections

I also have noticed a car traveling far in excess of the speed limit in Largo. It's always dark when it comes by. I was told by a neighbor this week that it is the WSJ delivery person. Seems awfully dangerous to me for anyone walking their pet. I also see UPS and Fedex speeding but you can see them because it's light and can get out of their way.

Why post this here you think someone on here will rush right over and arrest them?

You complain about her driving too fast. How fast do you drive YOUR golf cart? People in glass houses.

Imagine you are a deputy sheriff, devoted to the hot pursuit of drug addicts from outside The Villages beating up each other or shoplifting (and I’m grateful for that!), and you get assigned to park on a little street to catch someone delivering papers. Does the punishment fit the crime? Is this where we want our tax dollars to go?

Now, imagine you are a young woman delivering The Wall Street Journal. You have maybe a hundred to deliver in The Villages. You get paid about a nickel per paper, and you provide your own gas. There are about a hundred miles of roads in The Villages, and it is easy to get lost, especially if you don’t live there. Almost no one is walking the streets at 6:30, except for a handful of people who think that at that hour, the center of the street is their lawful sidewalk. Each of those WSJ readers wants to read the paper at dawn with the first cup of coffee and gets mad if it’s not waiting on the driveway in a plastic bag. Some of those subscribers call the main office to complain if the paper isn’t there by seven. Her job is always on the line.

So of course she drives fast. She got up at 3:30 am in Ocala to start delivering papers, and she needs to finish her route and try to get home to feed her little kids before the school bus arrives. Then she will be off to her full-time job, hoping not to be late.

As the old Velvet Underground song says, “Some people go out dancing, and other people have to work.” I’d say, working people should always have the right of way and should be cut a lot of slack. We dancers—that is, those of us who have retired from our work—can step to the side for five seconds and thank them for their service.

Many UPS trucks also speed on residential streets at times. My understanding is that if it takes them ten or twelve hours to make all their deliveries, they don’t get paid overtime for delivering what the computer says should take them eight hours. Talking to a customer for a couple minutes can get drivers into trouble. A traffic jam can really hurt. They’d like to get home by seven, but often it is nine or ten. Cut them some slack and always thank them for their service, to you and to the country.

Correct. Bikes are supposed to follow all rules that apply to vehicles. They dont own the road like they think.

Wrong :blahblahblah:

We had this problem in Virginia. We went to the newspaper and spoke to them. They said that they subcontract out the deliveries and were less than interested in doing anything. You can threaten a lawsuit all day long, but what is it you would sue for? Speeding is a job for the police. If she causes an accident, then someone could sue. Idle threats just annoy people.

WSJ Driver
 

I live in Hadley and the driver they are talking about is going to kill someone. Order the WSJ and you can see for yourself

I don’t think people living in villas are sophisticated enough to read th the WSJ.

Ah yes, a lawsuit, the American way.

Now there is a truly ignorant response by a real stupid person.

Why not just cancel your subscription to the WSJ? Then you won’t have to worry about it and can concentrate on identifying and turning in owners whose dogs poop where you don’t want them to.

If I filed a lawsuit against all my neighbors exceeding the speed limit on my street I’d be broke. And that’s just cars. While driving the 20 limit I have been passed by both cars and carts. It’s a Villages tradition.

Spike Devil Extended Spike Strip
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How do you know OP speeds in his cart?

Not when they set up the digital speed, and you can watch for a whole week exactly how fast they are going.

I spend ten seconds reading the village's weekly reader and then I can enjoy reading the WSJ with my coffee. Everyone should subscribe! You would love reading a real newspaper. If you ever find anything worthwhile to read in the TV weakly reader please let me know. Please stop picking on my paper delivery lady. I'll be forced to give her another tip. You should wear light colored clothing, carry a flashlight or strap a red blinker to your front, You are walking facing traffic, right?, Stay out of the middle of the road. Wait 'til it's nice and light out so you can talk to your neighbors! Why do the old ladies in the villages try to run everyone's life. Drives me nutz.

Blaming the victims.


Why don't you ask the delivery lady to slow down before she hurts someone.

Speed limit.
 

I do! So do many others. Your response reminds me of the child using the " all the other kids do it " to try to justify their own bad behavior.

road block
 

Lets get together and set a road block when she comes to deliver.. we will get her,,,

Ya know when you get the golf cart from lifestyle visit that goes 10mph, everyone passes you. They have to be going 25 cause you are sitting still:a040::a040::1rotfl::1rotfl:

Contact WSJ and let them know about this person...she is their responsibility. Police/sheriff can do nothing unless they witness her speeding, then they can only ticket her for that offense

This has happen to me several times when we in FL for the winter. One time she turned as not to hit me and about hit a lady on a walker. I did stop her one morning and tell her about speeding in Hampton Villa. She told me she would do what she wanted to, then pealed out. Village watch would not even listen to me. She is going to hurt someone one of these days.

She also goes though the red light at O Dell circle and Canal every morning with out stopping. I also have tried to get the licence number

I've also seen the WSJ driver driving too fast through our Cul-de-sac in Collier when they deliver the neighbor's paper. Going so fast, I couldn't see the driver.

Since this driver has a set route, have your phones ready, you would be surprised what they catch in video mode. As for the traffic light she runs, do the same thing, get a video, then call the SCSO and when they come to your house show them the video. You might get lucky and they will just happen to have a car in the area.
Also since it appears that several people have seen this car and driver, ALL of you should call the WSJ and report what you are seeing, explain the near misses and the possible exposure of the WSJ if there should be an accident (they have probably already setup a way to be insulated from the actions of their contractors).