SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. — Seminole County is giving residents an opportunity Thursday to voice their opinions about three proposed roundabouts for State Road 434 in the eastern part of the county at a public meeting.

County engineers are considering installing three roundabouts between Oviedo and Winter Springs.

“It’s constant traffic," said Mira Clamor, the owner of Sweetwater Salon & Spa Inc.

Clamor and other drivers regularly deal with long vehicle platoons, car after car with little room for others to turn onto 434.

Seminole County found between 19,600 and 24,000 vehicles use State Road 434 between State Road 417 and Artesia Street.

The county also studied crashes and found over 600 wrecks in that area during a five-year period. Of those crashes, 137 resulted in at least one injury, and one resulted in a death.

"It's getting worse, so this is going to stop it, I hope," said Jim Edgemon, who has lived in the area for nearly two decades.

Edgemon said he is hoping the roundabouts will make it easier to turn left out of his neighborhood.

“I think everybody here likes it because you go out here and have a roundabout and go up the road and go," he said.

Seminole County is proposing to build the roundabouts at Mactavandash Drive, Hammock Lane and Artesia Street.

Clamor said she is concerned about large trucks using the roundabouts.

“I think it would be difficult for them to go through a roundabout,” she said. “I think it's too long, too wide of a truck to go through the roundabout. So I'm not too sure."

Despite the hesitation to use them, roundabouts slow down drivers and can reduce crashes, Seminole County engineers said.

“Compared to traffic signals at the same locations, roundabouts are expected to reduce fatal and injury crashes by 40(%) to 65%, a reduction of more than 100 fatal and serious injury crashes over the project's lifecycle,” said Jeff Sloman, a Seminole County engineer.

Each roundabout will also have a truck apron to allow large vehicles to get through.

“The truck aprons are designed so that large trucks can drive over them to navigate the roundabout,” Sloman said.

The improvements also call for a raised median, and a shared pedestrian-bike path.

The public meeting about the project is being held from 6 p.m. until 7:30 p.m. June 9 at the Foundry Church on State Road 434 in Winter Springs.

Construction on the project has not yet been funded.