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Sheriff urges FDOT to accelerate widening of State Road 710 after repeated fatal crashes
Summary
Sheriff Budensick told the commission that the 33.7-mile State Road 710 corridor has produced about 1,250 crashes since 2015 and 29 county-side fatalities in the past decade; FDOT has funded the multi-phase widening project but construction is not slated to begin for several years, so the sheriff asked the board to press for faster delivery and consider interim mitigations.
Sheriff Budensick presented a data-driven case that State Road 710 (Warfield Boulevard) is the most dangerous corridor in western Martin County. He showed crash photos and a news clip and said the corridor recorded roughly 1,250 reported crashes since 2015, with 29 fatalities on the Martin County side in the past 10 years. He attributed much of the harm to crossover head-on collisions, heavy truck traffic and…
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