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Just the mere mention of that intersection causes many residents in the area to roll their eyes.
Why? We have seen many near misses of vehicles driving down Yates from Thompson Road with cars coming out of March Crossing. This past weekend was no different.
Let’s go back in time to this past summer around the dinner hour. Local residents were brought out of their homes with the sounds of screeching tires, loud thumps and a big bang. What had happened was a car traveling north on Yates Drive towards Bennett Blvd. at what witnesses describe as “over the speed limitâ€, narrowly missing a vehicle coming out on March Crossing into the intersection. This car swerved to miss that car, lost control, jumped the curb on the opposite side of the road and smashed into a house. Luckily there was no one hurt. The car sustained some damage and the bay window of the home was damaged.
As those of us who live in the area know, kids are walking up and down the sidewalk heading to their friends’ homes or to the local parks and thank God no one was there when this happened.
Now, we go back to this past Saturday and almost the exact same thing happened again…
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