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Cocoa Village Now Ranks No.1 in Brevard As Most Likely Place To Crash

"If you try to maintain the speed limit, they will run you over," says Ovril Chong-You, pointing at the State Road 520-Brevard Avenue intersection right across from his office.

Chong-You and his partner Rose Moore, co-owners of Access PhotoGraphics, moved from Rockledge to Cocoa Village last month, according to a Florida Today report, and have already witnessed two Brevard crashes.

According to Space Coast Transportation Planning Organization (TPO) the one-block section of SR 520 from Brevard to Delannoy Avenue is the most likely place on the Space Coast to get into a fender-bender.

Other portions of Cocoa Village - on Florida Avenue and Forrest Avenue - rank sixth and ninth respectively on the TPO's top ten crash-rate list.

Brevard officials consider the crash list to decide where and how to spend federal and state funds for road infrastructure.

The No.2 location on the crash-rate list is westbound Eau Gallie Boulevard in Melbourne, between Pineapple and Highland Avenues, while the third place on the top-ten list is a barrier-island location: State Road A1A between SR 520 and Marion Lane in Cocoa Beach.

Tourists swarm this commercial corridor, and frequent stop-and-go traffic generates rear-end collisions.

According to Jane Lim-Yap, senior planner with Kittelson & Associates, of Orlando, total crashes dropped 14 percent across Brevard County this year, probably due to the sluggish economy and the ongoing Interstate 95 construction.

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