One Deltona resident says speeding on a curve in the road near her home is causing dangerous driving conditions.

What You Need To Know

  • Annette Pagan says drivers speeding are resulting in crashes on Doyle Road

  • Pagan says a driver crashed into their parked truck in October 2021

  • Volusia County officials recommend reflective post panels or strips on signs to warn drivers of a curve at night

Annette Pagan says drivers are going too fast near her home on Doyle Road, between Saxon Boulevard and Providence Boulevard.

"They are just flying by through here,” she said.

The final straw for Pagan came back in October of 2021, when a driver didn’t make the curve and ended up flipping her vehicle into the parked truck belonging to Pagan’s husband.

"We came out and we saw our truck totaled, and we saw this vehicle on its side and pieces hanging from everywhere,” Pagan said.

The driver survived.

Pagan moved into their Deltona home four years ago. Originally from New York City, she was working across the street from the World Trade Center on 9/11.

“It’s hard to be in that environment and always wonder when it’s going to happen again,” said Pagan. “So we just wanted a more peaceful life, not so crazy.”

She still suffers PTSD, and the dangerous driving on Doyle Road is not helping.

Spectrum News 13 brought her concerns to Volusia County officials. A traffic study of Doyle Road was conducted and traffic engineers found 74 crashes between Providence Boulevard and Saxon Boulevard over the past five years. Three of those crashes were at the curve in front of Pagan’s house, and they were all at night.

Engineers recommend the county install reflective yellow post panels or strips on signs to warn drivers of the curve.​

The Volusia County study found a majority of drivers go at or just over the posted 40-mile-per-hour speed limit.

But engineers said the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office will also be in the area to enforce the speed limit, just in case.

It’s not enough for Pagan, who said she’d like a traffic signal installed to slow drivers down.

Since that’s not happening, she and her husband are laying down trees and planters as a barrier to keep their property protected.

"Our intent is to go ahead and form a line of these potteries here, fill them up with cement and hopefully, God forbid, if anything ever happens again, this will put some kind of stop to it,” she said.

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