A Volusia County woman wants drivers to slow down after a car plowed through her parent’s yard earlier this year.

“I just had a voice to take the kids in the house, it was a beautiful day and I’m not understanding," said Carie Smith. "But I heard it even louder. So I took the babies and we all went in the house and not 30 minutes later there was a big 'ol crash out here."

While the driver ended up being OK, the vehicle knocking down the mailbox and the fence.

Smith says drivers often speed on North Street between Nova Road and Ridgewood Avenue in Daytona Beach.

"People fly up and down the road, like it’s the International Speedway," she said. "It’s 30 miles an hour here.”

She wants drivers who use North Street as a cut-through to slow down with the help of some speed bumps.

Spectrum News 13 asked officials with the city of Daytona Beach about the possibility, but they pointed to a traffic study from November 2020 that indicated about 85% of drivers traveled at or below 33 miles per hour on North Street.

Because of that study, the city’s traffic engineering division doesn’t recommend speed bumps for the street.

Smith has decided to take steps into her own hands. Often, she’ll hold up a poster that says “Please Slow Down” for passing drivers to see. She likes to show the sign to drivers along North Street, especially during the morning and after school bus stop times.

“It has been helping, it makes me feel good that these kids are safe getting on and off the bus in the morning and afternoon so they can go back to their families,” she said.

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