ESCAMBIA COUNTY - Most people traveling on Highway 29 pass by and don't even notice it, but the intersection at Nine and a Half Mile Road has built a bad reputation over the years.

There have been three deadly accidents in the past year alone.

One this past weekend left many people wondering why more isn't being done to make the intersection safer.

Channel Three's Laurie Bernstein joins us live from Highway 29 and Nine and a Half Mile Road to tell us more.

This wreath commemorates the life of 20-year-old Karen Broxson. She was ejected from her car back in July during an accident, just one of those who have lost their lives here at this dangerous intersection.

For the people who live and work out here, the constant wrecks have become just a part of normal life.

"It's like the rabbit crossing the road, he's gonna get hit sooner or later."

Mike Christine sees it all outside his business right on the corner of Highway 29 and Nine and a Half Mile Road.

"It's just so much traffic going at a high rate of speed, then cars trying to dart across intersections to get there, just not working."

The dangerous combination ended in the deaths of three drivers this past year alone, with countless other fender benders clogging the roadway at any given time.

"We've even had it to the point the state trooper sitting in the parking lot dealing with a wreck, then another wreck occurs on the road, he has to go back out there and bring that wreck in."

"Very bad intersection, I've been living here 40 years, and I've seen many wrecks and fatalities."

For Jerry Wallace, the most recent was this past weekend.

He was working at his TV repair shop off Highway 29 Saturday when...

"I heard a loud boom, ran out, saw three vehicles involved in an accident."

And that accident wasn't even the most serious of the day.

26-year-old Keven Clifton of Cantonment died at the same intersection just hours earlier, after his car flipped over into this ditch.

"They need to put a light there, if possible."

"Probably don't want to do it because of the money, I'm thinking there's got to be a death toll number that the state will actually act at, enough people are killed."

Until that happens, a word of warning to drivers from those who see these wrecks all the time.

Be sure to look and judge the distance of approaching cars before you turn, because sometimes you don't realize how fast they are going until you pull out in front of them, and it is too late.

Live from Highway 29, Laurie Bernstein, Channel Three News.Residents, Business Want Action for Dangerous Intersection