Tracking drivers ignoring stop signs

It started on Facebook, one Island Park resident after another complained that drivers were not stopping at stop signs and speeding down residential streets.

Finally Kathleen Clancy McDonough, who lives one house away from Nassau Lane and Kildare Road, had enough, and realized complaining on social media would do nothing. Instead she and other residents compiled a list of the sites of the worst intersections, where motorists regularly ignore stop signs.

At the Nov. 19 Island Park Village Board meeting McDonough brought her list and presented it to the village board and Sergeant Scott Andruk of the Nassau County Police Department.

All of Island Park only has one daytime patrol car and one nighttime car and only one officer assigned to them. The residents are hoping that by alerting the police to the worst intersections some additional actions might be taken before someone gets hurt.

Warwick Road made the list three times, at the corners of Long Beach Road where there is a traffic light, Radcliff Road just outside Francis X. Hegarty Elementary School and at Suffolk Road. Also on the list were Radcliff at Kent Roads, Parma Road at Sagamore Road, at Long Beach Road and Fazio. Suffolk Road also made the list at Warwick and Brighton Roads. Deal Road was listed for every intersection. Not all of the roads were included on the list as people called more names out at the meetings.

On Barnum Island California Place South was named twice, at Vanderbuilt Place and New York Avenue, and Broadway at Saratoga, Audubon, Kingston, Pennsylvania Roads all stop signs.