car crashes
 

There seems to be a rash of rather severe crashes in and around TV's as of late

Yesterday there was a rollover crash @ Colony Plaza

Snowbirds rushing around?

Actually, considering the size of TV you have to expect serious accidents happening

Random events are never equally distributed across time (coin flipping is the classic example) and people typically see patterns where none exist.

Our roads are not built for the speed that many residents and non-residents are driving. They were built for retirees and for some reason or other, we cannot seem to slow down with age! We still need to get everywhere in a tearing hurry. Add in aging bodies and aging eye sight and you have a recipe for disaster!

Crashes
 

And car insurance rates are up year after year as a result. "We've seen a crash or two, so we know a thing or two about insurance rates."

Yep. And yep.

lot of snowbirds and renters this time of year who are unfamiliar with roundabouts (rotaries up north), people just are not yielding at yield signs. We've had several close calls since the rist of the year and all have been out of state plates.

Traffic density all over Florida goes way up in snowbird season. The increase is of course from tourists who are sometimes totally new to the area and part time residents who may not be intimately familiar with the roads and local driving habits.

In some locales one is expected to slowly coast through stop signs unless there is a need to stop. That is the practice in Southern California, for example, and everyone there expects such behavior. They also are supposed to stop to let pedestrians cross streets there. In other areas one must literally stop at all stop signs. Pedestrians must wait until traffic clears to walk in most places. Since I travel a lot I do not to start to walk across a street expecting traffic to stop for me.

People who don’t obey this rule rarely travel a lot...they usually end up dead.

People bring their bad driving habits with them. It's NOT something that magically happens just because they live here. I once heard a coversation where a person said, "I'm from N.Y.---I never stopped for a stop sign there, so I won't be doing it here!" With that kind of logic you can expect that sometime they'll more than likely have an accident. When discussions happen on the social media sites---it seems many folks don't think the laws apply to them and will argue the fact. This thread, I predict, will "grow" and there will be a long discussion....and I just contributed. BUT that's my 2-cents worth.

Am wondering how many accidents are the result of permanent residents not being able to cope with the driving habits of seasonal residents. We do read that permanent residents have their own share of incidents when the seasonal residents are not there. More drivers = more opportunities.

Well, I lived in the Washington, D.C. area for a number of years. I soon learned to look out for cars bearing plates from out of the area.

Twice today in the span of two hours, we were the 3rd car behind a lead car which couldn't figure how to open a gate. And someone took out the whole residents' side of the gate including the pillar to Hemingway. This has happened before. It's dangerous to leave home.

It seems that you have two choices. Remove the gates or have then open automatically.

For some reason, The Villages is located between some very major routes, that are full of Semi Truck. Rte 441 and Rt 301 are used heavily by Truckers. The speed limits are quite high, at 45 mph, but rarely can you get up to speed, and if you do look out.