In a place that used to be quiet, Roe Ford Road was a drive where every corner led to the country.
"It's turned into a speedway," resident Bill Mathis says.
Times have definitely changed, and residents like Mathis say around every twist and turn on the road is a new danger.
"I''ve seen them go across that road," Mathis says. "And I just hold my breath."
Thirty years ago, he didn't have to feel that way. But Friday morning, Mathis got another reminder of the dangerous drive.
A BMW plowed into a Fed Ex truck, and landed in Mathis's front yard. It's the third accident like this in just a few years. It was just two months ago, that accused murderer John Ludwig lost control along Roe Ford Road. His Maserati slammed into a nearby home, killing the man inside.
"I have to cut the grass on the side of the road and I just take my life in my own hands out there," Mathis says. "I'm scared to death every time I go out there to cut the grass."
He's not the only one.
With new neighborhoods being built all along the road, parents say something needs to be done.
"In a residential area, that's a very scary thing," Jenny George says. "To have my elderly parents, my son will learning to drive next year, and my 11 year old crosses it to see his cousins. It's a scary place."
George and others even convinced lawmakers to put up signs recently, telling cars to slow down to 25 mph. The move hasn't worked.
Now, they're hoping to start petitions, to convince the Department of Transportation to do more.
"We need help," says resident Charlie Adams.
It's only a matter of time, they all say, before the quiet dies down and someone else loses their life.
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