The top ten sites with most crashes in unincorporated Hillsborough County are all in or near Brandon. Four of the top six are along Bloomingdale Av. Four of the top nine are along Causeway/Lumsden. Riverview has the #2 spot, and Seffner holds number 10 junction.
Every month, 2.2 million vehicles drive through the intersection (85,000/day!) at Hwy 60/Brandon Blvd. and Regency Blvd. (the original mall entrance). Jeff has proof.
Update 19 Oct 2005 2pm: Added Jeff’s Side Salad proof of traffic in Brandon.
Sandy
4 years ago
…and this is where my nieces are learning to drive.
I’m from Brandon. My whole family (God bless ‘em) is still there but I will never to buy another home there. Sure, a REAL woman would stay and fight the sprawl but, hey, when the rats take over the sinking ship…
Brandon was once so great. I remember the worst crime there when I was a kid was a string of home robberies. “Causeway Blvd” was Lumsden and it was where we all went for 4th fireworks and the polo people kept our secret to themselves. Flocks of sandhill cranes, gopher turtles, marshes and pastures… Mt. Carmel Rd was one, big orange grove where everyone went parking and partying under the stars–not gang-banging in the Regency parking lot. Fishhawk Ranch wasn’t even a glimmer in anyone’s eye and there were actual fishhawks still there. Bloomingdale Av. was heading “out to the country” and The Spot was still a nightmare in the distant future. Brandon Hospital was still a hospital where you recognized almost everyone’s last name instead of a Columbia conclomerate. Dog-n-Suds sat side-by-side with Stowers–the best funeral home around. The Hwy. 60 chickens near the old Grants (now just a big dying plaza with one of the few real barbershops left in town), people going to church on horseback, kids mad for tooling around in post-office 3-wheelers of the time, Lithia Springs still a secret swimmin’ hole, tubing down the Alafia (it wasn’t a sewer then), jumping off the Belle Shoals bridge (the county claims that’s private property now-HAH!), canoing out from Alderman’s Ford, quiet time at the Turkey Creek reservoir (it has some terrible name now), berry and veggie picking in Lithia and Riverview and Mulberry and Pinecrest, riding bikes on trails we made through the woods (what woods?)….
It’s all just gone.
*Sigh* I feel like an old fart.
Marketing Gorilla
4 years ago
If we build a train, there would be more accidents and more chances for my crazy uncle to be interviewed on Channel 13 after the accident. He would love to say on live television that the train wreck sounded just like a tornado. Let’s not encourage this type of behavior.
Jeff
4 years ago
Actually my photo was shot on Causeway Boulevard by the Costco entrance.