Within the last 30 years, a property in Rockwood has been the site of at least a dozen crashes. “We’ve had two cars flip on our front lawn, and we’ve had several people need to get towed away. We’ve also had a motorcyclist accident,” homeowner Alyssa Guthrie told CTV News. She said three collisions have happened in the past year and a half. The most recent incident happened in August when a car landed on its roof, roughly two to three car lengths away from her front door. Guthrie believes its because she lives at the end of a S-bend along Wellington Road 22 in Rockwood and drivers are taking it too fast. “If we see or hear [a crash], we’ll call the police. My mom’s a nurse. She comes out and will assist,” she explained. She said not every driver is willing to wait for police. If the crash is minor enough, a driver will just keep going, or call a tow truck without calling the Ontario Provincial Police. Sometimes Alyssa and her family simply come home to find evidence that a car was on their front lawn, but they have no explanation of what happened. She has photos of tires tracks left in her lawn and on her driveway. “I get nervous when I come out to get the mail or the recycling bin. I never know if that’s going to be the day that I get hit.” CTV News spoke with Guthrie’s neighbour Gary, across the street who said he has also had multiple drivers leave the road and land on his property. Gary said drivers are acting poorly and he’s scared someone is going to get seriously hurt. Thankfully, the damage to Guthrie’s property has been minimal so far, and she hasn’t seen any serious injuries but the fear is constant, “I hope we can get something done sooner rather than later, just so nothing terrible happens.” What the county has to say The County of Wellington told CTV News, they have received complaints about this stretch of road, and that they have conducted a review. “The posted speed limit is appropriate for the location. The signage at the location includes curve warning signs and chevrons to delineate the curves in the road. The road curves are also superelevated,” the county said in a statement. County of Wellington engineer, Don Kudo wrote, “Currently, there are no plans to change the road design and signage at this location.”
