It's not our fault; it's you stupid drivers:
Worried about the number of traffic accidents at Avon's first roundabout, town officials are urging motorists to learn better skills for driving through it.
Fourteen accidents have happened at the roundabout since it opened in November at Dan Jones Road and County Road 100 South, including four in February. That's the same number of accidents at that intersection during the six months before the roundabout's opening.
"There's not a problem with the design, it's just the way people are using it," said Ryan Cannon, the town's public works director.
Is that what public service means -- just throw the stuff out there and hope the people figure out how to use it? Jeez. We were lucky enough in this neck of the woods to get the city's first (I believe) traffic circle several years ago, out on Old Mill Road. And in the city's press release announcing it, nobody bothered to explain how to use it. Basically, anybody still outside the circle has to yield to anybody already in it; the idea is to slow and calm traffic. It sure works that way for me -- the thing is so annoying I don't even go that way anymore.
