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Speed enforcement enhanced on Gulfstream Blvd.

Posted by Mark Chapman on July 26th, 2010 at 11:37 am

Gulf­stream Boule­vard will get extra atten­tion this week from the Char­lotte County Sheriff’s Office speed enforce­ment crew.

The entire length of Gulf­stream Boule­vard will be mon­i­tored. In 2009, there were  24 crashes on the road involv­ing 49 vehi­cles, injur­ing 14, caus­ing $121,950 in damage.

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Sheriff’s deputies will also be watch the inter­sec­tion of Placida Road and Rotonda Boule­vard for stop light vio­la­tions. In 2009 there were six crashes there involv­ing 10 vehi­cles, injur­ing 3, caus­ing $26,900 in damags.

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One response to “Speed enforcement enhanced on Gulfstream Blvd.”

  1. Old Fart

    7 / 27 / 2010
    8:36 am

    I’m not the least bit against enforc­ing speed lim­its but I wish that just once, they would point out the fact the over­whelm­ing major­ity of the crashes doc­u­mented were caused by “right of way” vio­la­tions (peo­ple pulling out in front of each other), and had lit­tle to do with “speed”.

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