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Couple on curving county road pays for traffic software after losing 6 mailboxes to speeding vehicles
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Rick Schumann points out a sign that displays a vehicle's speed as it approaches a curve along Williams Road in front of his home in Flowery Branch on Monday. The Schumanns have lost six mailboxes to motorists who speed into the curve along Williams Road in front of their home. After the Hall County Sheriff's Office installed a sign showing drivers their speed as they approached the curve, the Schumanns paid for software that collects and analyzes traffic data. - photo by David Barnes
Rick and Mary Schumann have lost six mailboxes — five of them brick — living on a curve of Williams Road in Flowery Branch. “They’re coming so fast around the curve they can’t stay in their own lane. They go in the oncoming lane and then over into our yard at a high rate of speed,” Rick Schumann said. Williams Road is a 30-mph zone, and the limit is 20 mph around the curve.