A stretch of Tuskawilla Road in Winter Springs is one of three corridors under study by Seminole County and MetroPlan Orlando in a second round of road safety audits, WKMG News 6 reported.
The segment runs from Dyson Drive to Willa Springs Drive. The other two corridors under review are in Sanford, both on U.S. 17-92: from West 27th Street to West 18th Street, and from Seminole Boulevard to 18th Street. The station reported that transportation crews began this round of audits in October on roads in Winter Springs, Sanford and Lake Mary.
What an audit does
A road safety audit is a formal review of an existing road, or a planned project, that looks for hazards and recommends practical fixes before serious crashes happen. The roads chosen come from the county's High Injury Network, the list of roadways its Vision Zero Action Plan identified as most in need of safety work.
Vision Zero is the approach of treating traffic deaths and serious injuries as preventable through safer road design.
County Traffic Engineer Charley Wetzel told WFTV in September that the process begins with crash data, traffic volumes and speeds before engineers look at the road in person. Possible measures include rectangular flashing beacons at crosswalks, bike lanes where a road has none, and steering pedestrians to marked crossings instead of crossing anywhere.
