VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – Residents off Bow Creek Blvd. told NewsChannel 3 the aggressive driving on their street has to stop.
Recently, one of the neighbors caught an act of aggressive driving on camera. In the video, you can see one car pass the vehicle in front of it, on the two-lane road.
The man who captured the aggressive act on video, Nick Anderson, told NewsChannel 3 this type of driving “happens multiple times throughout the day.”
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NewsChannel 3's Merris Badcock spoke to several other neighbors on this street, and all of them agree.
"Basically on a daily basis," said resident Ron Huff.
“That happens on the regular, multiple times a day," said resident Jessica Merritt. “This is a neighborhood. You have cars pulling out of driveways. I’ve almost been hit multiple times just pulling out of my driveway.”
One reason neighbors think they see so much traffic is because Bow Creek Blvd. connects Rosemont Rd. to the Lynnhaven Mall. They say many locals use their neighborhood as a cut-through.
The speed limit on Bow Creek Blvd. is 25 miles per hour.
Aside from catching these aggressive acts on camera, neighbors say they are at a loss of what else they can do.
“I don’t know that there is a whole lot that can be done about it," said Huff, who moved to the neighborhood a few weeks ago. "It would be nice to have someone not have an outrage at me for just backing out of my driveway," he told NewsChannel 3.
Police did place a radar detector in the neighborhood for a few days recently, and neighbors say cops will patrol their street every now and then looking for speeders, but they say these efforts have not put a dent in their problem.
"People are ignoring the little effort done by authorities," Anderson said in a written statement.
Anderson hopes his video of an aggressive driver caught on camera will help police step up patrols.
