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We finally received a response from the City of Lakeland\/Lakeland Police Department regarding the roundabout at Waring Road & Drane Field Road (SR 572).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And there\u2019s one number that immediately stood out:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

38 crashes.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This roundabout officially opened to traffic on November 24, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the response we received, from the time the roundabout opened through today, there have been 38 traffic crashes at this intersection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s exactly why we started asking questions about this location in the first place<\/p>\n\n\n

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We finally received a response from the City of Lakeland\/Lakeland Police Department regarding the roundabout at Waring Road & Drane Field Road (SR 572). And there\u2019s one number that immediately… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNlwvMDlcLzc5Nzc5OTEyNV8xMjIxODYyMDc5MTg2Nzc3ODdfNjY1NTg3MTI0MzQxMjE0MTk0MF9uLndlYnA_Zml0PTUwMCUyQzU5MCZzc2w9MSIsInR4dCI6IjM4IENSQVNIRVMgQVQgVEhFIFdBUklORyBST0FEICZhbXA7IERSQU5FIEZJRUxEIFJPQUQgUk9VTkRBQk9VVCIsInRlbXBsYXRlIjoiZG9pcyIsImZvbnQiOiIiLCJibG9nX2lkIjoxNjMwNDA2NjF9.aaXfJsQTxL2JLHDGyWLl5ODdPzaqvilZwYW1HXm2kAEMQ"},"version":2,"media_source":"sig","attached_media":[{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/jetpack.com\/redirect\/?source=sigenerate&query=t%3DeyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvbGFrZWxhbmRnYXpldHRlLmluZm9cL25ld3NcL3dwLWNvbnRlbnRcL3VwbG9hZHNcLzIwMjZcLzA5XC83OTc3OTkxMjVfMTIyMTg2MjA3OTE4Njc3Nzg3XzY2NTU4NzEyNDM0MTIxNDE5NDBfbi53ZWJwIiwidHh0IjoiMzggQ1JBU0hFUyBBVCBUSEUgV0FSSU5HIFJPQUQgJmFtcDsgRFJBTkUgRklFTEQgUk9BRCBST1VOREFCT1VUIiwidGVtcGxhdGUiOiJkb2lzIiwiZm9udCI6IiIsImJsb2dfaWQiOjE2MzA0MDY2MX0.aHwX3mJXWi5ww8aPTibIR_QUaJP1lxGEPaKkA33PEaMMQ","type":"image\/jpeg"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[237,9800,15186,16098,2794,17404,17406,17405],"class_list":["post-81310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-lakeland","tag-drane-field-road","tag-lakeland-police-department","tag-road-safety","tag-roundabouts","tag-traffic-accidents","tag-traffic-crashes","tag-waring-road"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81313,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81310\/revisions\/81313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}