Relevant Stats

  • Winter Park Police Department reports that within 1.7 miles from Park Avenue to Lakemont Avenue, there’s an average of
    10 car crashes/month

  • Car crash frequency recorded for the past 5 years (2017 -2022) is estimated at 666 resulting in 2 deaths

  • 31% of these reported crashes resulted in injuries (203 cases)

  • 64% of these reported crashes resulted in property damage (424 cases)

  • There’s an average of 4,201 speed violators DAILY causing life threatening safety issues
    (data from Winter Park Police Department)

  • High volume traffic in a residential area, average of 38,000 ++ cars passing thru daily

Increased police presence and ticketing results:

The Police Department issued 2589 tickets during the 1st Quarter of 2022;
22% (568 citations) of those citations were issued between Chase/Ollie to Phelps.

Speed study done February-March 2022 , Highest Speed tracked at 90+ mph

2/14/2022- 2/23/2022 Eastbound : 162,500 total vehicles with approximately 1,392 violations/day

2/23/2022-3/1/2022 Westbound : 113,272 total vehicles with approximately 1,132 violations/ day

3/15/2022-3/21/2022 Westbound: 108,422 total vehicles with approximately 1,433 violations/day

3/21/2022- 3/29/2022 Eastbound: 147,168 total vehicles with approximately 1,685 violations/day

Accidents recorded for the past 5 years

(Data from FDOT, period January 2017 to August 2022 - projected thru Dec 2022)

  • Within a stretch of 1.6 miles, there has been approximately 666 car crashes

  • 2020-2021 Pandemic helped reduced # of commuters/accidents

  • 2022 Q4 car crashes to be confirmed

2022 data as of August 18, 2022

Crash Type

Data from FDOT (2022 Q4 not included)