PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (WPEC) \u2014 Several neighbors say they’re fed up with drivers speeding down a busy parkway behind their homes in Port St. Lucie at all hours of the day and night. Some said they even hear cars racing.<\/p>\n
Ruthi Cintron’s home butts up against SE Green River Parkway. She’s now left with a gaping hole in her fence after a car barreled through her fence and backyard around 2 a.m. Sunday.<\/p>\n
“This was a gate,” Cintron said. “This is where the car came to. You can see the tire marks, all the way here.”<\/p>\n
The chain link fence was left bent and twisted on the ground.<\/p>\n
Police said the driver went off the road along Green River Parkway, hit the fence and then took off.<\/p>\n
“My daughter came in my room and said, ‘Mom you need come outside,'” Cintron said. “She went to let the dogs out and realized we don’t have a fence.”<\/p>\n
See also: Pregnant in Florida? There’s a parking pass for that<\/a><\/p>\n Seth Conley’s wooden fence next door was also damaged.<\/p>\n “There was a post here and a gate and they knocked it down, and then they hit this,” Conley said as he showed the broken fence.<\/p>\n Neighbors said speeding along the parkway is a big problem.<\/p>\n “You can hear them; they’re probably going 80-90 mph out here, if I had to guess,” said Conley.<\/p>\n Cintron said she’s seen and heard cars racing down the stretch overnight. She found a hellcat emblem in her yard and thinks it belongs to a Dodge Challenger.<\/p>\n “There’s no police back here and it’s dark, and this is a quick throughway to wherever they’re going back and forth,” Cintron said.<\/p>\n Police tell CBS12 they haven’t had complaints about racing, but Cintron’s social media post about Sunday’s crash sparked plenty of reaction.<\/p>\n One person commented, “Crazy. I used to live at the end of Walton and Green River Parkway. Sometimes people race there.”<\/p>\n Another person wrote, “It sounds like a drag strip at night, especially Friday and Saturday nights.”<\/p>\n While police don’t believe the car was racing before the crash, Cintron is hoping this doesn’t happen again.<\/p>\n “They start cutting each other off. It’s insanity,” Cintron said. “There is children back here and it’s not fair that we have to be worried.”<\/p>\n Police said they’ll continue to have officers patrolling the area during the day and overnight.<\/p>\n Find more ways to stay up to date with your latest local news. Sign up for our newsletter <\/a>to get the day’s top headlines delivered right to your inbox. Subscribe to our YouTube channel <\/a>for the biggest stories and can’t miss video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (WPEC) \u2014 Several neighbors say they’re fed up with drivers speeding down a busy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[2336,4973,4972,1829,132,171,173,172,4974,1164],"class_list":{"0":"post-4464","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-car-crash","9":"tag-fence-damage","10":"tag-green-river-parkway","11":"tag-neighbors","12":"tag-police","13":"tag-port-st-lucie","14":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","15":"tag-port-st-lucie-news","16":"tag-racing","17":"tag-speeding"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}