Westside neighbors are speaking out about a problem with speeding drivers in their neighborhood.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A Jacksonville child was hit by a car on Looking Glass Lane, on Jacksonville’s Westside Friday afternoon. The child has serious injuries.
One neighbor First Coast News spoke with who asked not to be identified said she saw the accident on her street.
She along with other neighbors said they can hear and see cars speeding through their neighborhood on a daily basis.
“Since I’ve moved here even when we’re on the road. It’s constant that the cars will fly by they’re not just driving by and not paying attention they’re flying by on purpose like it’s speedway,” said one neighbor.
“They’ll do it when you’re walking up the road with a group of people and right next to you flying by so it’s a totality of people that feel like it’s okay to do this. It’s not,” she said.
Living right on the corner of Looking Glass and Miss Muffet lanes, she tells us she’s heard accidents before. She even heard today’s pedestrian-involved accident.
“Just an abrupt crash sound like something slam or hit and a kid screamed,” she said, “I’m not surprised honestly but it turns my stomach.”
This same neighbor along with many others we spoke with in the neighborhood said they just want the speeding and dangerous driving to stop.
“It’s disturbing day and night any hour it can happen you also have to be on guard in a neighborhood like this. You can never feel safe out here. There’s never a safe hour it’s dangerous,” said the neighbor.
