What Road in Gloucester Township Needs a Speed Bump?

Gloucester Township, N.J. - Over 9,000 fatalities occurred nationally during 2014 due to speeding according to the latest statistics from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The data also shows a correlation between a driver’s age and the likelihood of a speed-related accident. As the age of a driver increases, their risk of being in an accident decreases. Men are also more likely to be at the wheel during a speeding accident, according to the study.

While the number of speed-related fatalities have continually decreased since 2005, speeding still remains an issue in many of our Patch communities, including Gloucester Township. Readers suggested everything from increased police presence to more stop signs to building less housing to keep traffic at bay.

If you’re frustrated with speeders in a certain part of Gloucester Township, you are in good company. We reached out to readers on Facebook, asking which local road they thought needed a speed bump. Here’s what your neighbors told us:

• "Indiana Avenue, all the way through from Church Street to Frankford Avenue. Multiple accidents at Indiana and Lake. All day, everyday, there are speeding cars. It's a major cut-through."
• "Santalina Drive, please! There is a big curve that people fly around, especially when some of us and the neighbors park on the street,"
• "Conestoga Rd. People fly through there to get into the Millbridge apartments."
• "Station Ave. in Glendor. People are always speeding down this road."
• "Little Gloucester Rd. by the schools! Amazing how fast people drive in the school zone."
• "Speed bump is needed on Hobart Dr., cut-through off of Kelly Dr. to Chewslanding Rd. [People are] speeding, [running] stop signs."
• "Karen Drive. People speed through here all the time getting off of Black Horse Pike. It's unsafe for children playing outside."
• "Kelly Driver Rd. The speed limit is 35. People do 55 [or more]!"
• "Annapolis Ave. that runs through Senators Walk and Wye Oak"
• "Pulaski Ave. The cars and trucks are coming and going from the industrial park drive like it's a Sunday at Atco."
• "College Drive could use two."
• "Essex Ave. Erial Little League and Erial School are on this street. With no side walks and this street as a straight through to the back of the development, [cars] race down and blow the four-way stop. No one does the 25 mph speed limit. Scared to death a kid will be hit. Sad when it feels like I live in a main road."
• "Valleybrook. All roads."
• "Lakeview Avenue in Blackwood"

See a street you don’t agree with, or is there a road missing from the list? Tell us on Facebook, and make sure to add the Gloucester Township page to your favorites so you don’t miss any of the latest news from Patch.

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