(EDITOR S NOTE: This story has been updated with information received from Florida Department of Transportation after it was originally posted.)
The intersection of State Road 200 and Southwest 80th Street has seen its share of vehicle crashes. Among those killed there in the past 13 years have been an emergency room doctor and a registered nurse. An infant was seriously injured.
As residential and business growth soars along the SR 200 corridor the stretch of highway between Interstate 75 and County Road 484 so do traffic counts and the desire of drivers to find bypass roads around the traffic.
Southwest 80th Street has become a 1.4-mile connector from SR 200 to Southwest 80th Avenue, where the Circle Square Cultural Center was built within the On Top of the World retirement community.