Seeing the crumpled mass of metal instantly makes you think that no one could have survived. Luckily the driver was not as seriously injured in appearance as one might have assumed. However, had there been a passenger in the car, there is no doubt in our minds that there would have been a fatality. All this could have been avoided if a traffic light existed. Residents up and down Washington Avenue know that this road has become a drag strip of sorts.
Traffic is ever on the increase and speeds are getting higher and higher.
Because of the timing of the traffic lights and the distance between the lights that exist currently, our village speed limit has come to mean little to motorists. It is not uncommon to see cars traveling at speeds in excess of 50 MPHracing down the road at all hours of the day and night. At Garden Street, drivers know there is limited visibility in all directions. The trees that make Washington Avenue so beautiful also make it so deadly as they limit a driver's line of sight of oncoming traffic. Because of the excessive speed of cars, many drivers have misjudged oncoming traffic resulting in accident after accident.