Imagine living in a relatively safe and quiet neighborhood, but there’s one neighbor who speeds down the street, making you scared to even cross the street because he might hit you. Would you call the police, stop going for walks, or confront the neighbor?

In this story, one family is in this situation, and the husband is particularly upset about it. He has tried a lot of things to solve the problem, but so far, nothing has worked.

Here are all the details.

AITA for confronting someone in my neighborhood who routinely speeds around a corner where kids live going at least 45 in a 25?

There is a guy in the neighborhood I live in who has some really nice (and really fast) cars.

They are objectively awesome.

However, we live in a residential area where kids are always playing, and pedestrians routinely walking on the sidewalks and crossing the road and this guy always is gunning his engine, breaking the speed limit of 25 by a large margin around a blind curve, and gunning his engine at a deafening level to boot.

He has tried just about everything to make the guy slow down.

The city won’t put in speed limiting measures because it is a route that emergency vehicles commonly use.

I’ve also tried reporting speeding multiple times to the city about this area as it is not only him (but lots of people) who speed in this area and I feel it is completely unsafe, but to no avail.

We’ll occasionally see a police officer patrolling, but then nothing ever comes of it with regard to the speed.

I’ve put signs up in my yard, placed signage on my car, and tried to do everything in my power to curb the speeding.

That was a close call!

Today I was at my wit’s end.

I have a 4 month old and a small dog, and we were crossing the street to go for a walk, and not 3 seconds later this guy comes tearing around the corner again well in excess of 25 mph and proceeds to gun it down the rest of the street.

If he had been there a few seconds earlier he would’ve slammed into me and my family.

I was really angry and I knew where he lived (as I’d seen this happen many times before) so on my walk I stood outside the sidewalk and took a photo of his license plate until he came outside.

He told the guy off.

I started yelling at him that I’d had it with the speeding and that he could’ve killed my baby.

He got really defensive and yelled back at me that people speed by his house all the time too.

I said I’m not okay with that either and I’m scared for my kid, and that he has kids too, and I asked if he’d want people flying down his street with them around too.

My wife got upset and told me to leave, so I left after he kept telling me to gtfo. I probably could’ve approached it more diplomatically, but I was fed up and worried for my kid’s safety.

This sounds like a disaster waiting to happen! Hopefully the guy will slow down.

Let’s see what Reddit had to say about this situation.

One person suggests gathering evidence.

Another person points out that the neighbor basically admitted he’s in the wrong.

This person wouldn’t give up.

Another person shares how they deal with an annoying driver in the neighborhood.

Ignoring traffic rules can be really dangerous.

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