ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — Residents of the Waterford Lakes Community in Orange County have taken it upon themselves to slow down speeders through their neighborhoods.
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Reagan Rivard of the Waterford Lakes Community Association says she recently started receiving more calls about people driving well over the posted speed limit of 25 miles per hour.
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“I see people flying by. It’s crazy,” Rivard said.
She says they’ve tried asking for an increased law enforcement presence in the past, but the sheriff’s office can only do so much.
Rivard says the idea for a solution, pace cars, came across her desk from an unlikely source.
“Other communities in Canada were doing this program,” Rivard said. “It was successful.”
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The idea is simple: Residents can voluntarily place a small sticker on their car, identifying it as a pace car.
“Waterford Lakes Pace Car…I drive the limit. That’s all it says,” Pace Car volunteer Dan Krasinski said.
Those drivers then hit the streets, adhering strictly to the speed limit, and hoping speeders behind them see the sticker and understand the initiative.
The program has already been in place for a month with roughly 25 cars signed up and sporting pace car stickers so far.
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Krasinski says he signed up as soon as he got an email about the program.
“I think it’s getting a little better,” Krasinski said. “People start seeing that on a lot of cars and hopefully they wake up.”
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