Four serious crashes in seven days have rattled a quiet stretch of Sulphur Springs, where neighbors near East Juneau Street and East Mulberry Avenue say they are running out of patience — and out of parked cars to spare. The worst of them tore through a family's front yard, destroying six vehicles and leaving residents asking how many more wrecks it will take before the city steps in.
A Week of Wrecks Caught on Camera
According to Tampa Bay 28, residents say four serious crashes happened in the area within just seven days. Neighbor Anthony Roman shared Nest camera footage showing a crash on November 6, and his camera captured another one three days later, on November 9. In both videos, cars collided in the intersection and rolled into a nearby yard, according to the station's report.
Then, on November 11, another crash tore through the front yard of Alicia Perez, who has lived in the neighborhood for three years. Perez said she and her husband were home when they heard it; her husband had been outside checking their vehicles just minutes before the impact. “When he initially heard it, we had no idea it was a crash,” Perez recalled, per the same account. Six cars were damaged in total, four of them belonging to her family.
Neighbors Describe Years of Near-Misses
James Moore, who lives nearby, said cars have struck the corner of his home twice and that he's spent time picking up dozens of pieces of plastic and other debris from his yard. He estimated he has witnessed eight or nine crashes during the year he's lived at the property, and said four crashes alone occurred in the last 10 days. Moore has since asked his landlord to install a protective fence and has started spending time behind a side privacy fence instead of his front yard, the station reported.
Moore described East Juneau as a cut-through street where some drivers fail to slow sufficiently between stop signs. He suggested the city consider better bus stops, speed humps, cameras, or even a four-way stop at the intersection, which is currently controlled by a two-way stop sign.
'I've Already Pulled Two People From Vehicles'
Robert Sherman, who moved back to the neighborhood recently, said he noticed the speeding and collisions within about three weeks of returning. He said some drivers may not be familiar with the area or may have difficulty seeing the stop signs, which he believes are positioned too far back from the intersection. The posted speed limit on the street is 25 mph.
Sherman said he has already pulled two people from vehicles following crashes in the past week — one of them a child younger than 10. He pointed out that children in the area walk, bike and ride electric scooters along the street, which also sits near a bus stop and the Tampa Police Safe House, a site that provides after-school programming for kids. Sulphur Springs sees a steady mix of delivery drivers, rideshare drivers and through-traffic passing by, Sherman noted.
Sherman said he wants the city to consider speed bumps on East Juneau and nearby Bird Street, though he acknowledged that calming traffic on just one street could simply divert speeding drivers onto another neighborhood road. He said he has never seen officials conduct traffic studies or check conditions in the area, and he hopes the recent attention will push the city to act before another serious crash happens.
What the Neighborhood Action Plan Says
The concerns echo a pattern raised in earlier reporting; ABC Action News has previously reported that residents name crime and speeding as the two biggest issues facing Sulphur Springs. A February 2026 Sulphur Springs Neighborhood Action Plan identifies safer streets for walking, biking and driving as a priority, per Tampa Bay 28's reporting. The plan recommends safety audits along priority corridors to identify crash patterns and speed-management needs, and calls for using those findings to pursue improvements such as enhanced crossings, lighting and other measures, along with longer-term corridor-wide traffic calming.
The plan also identifies North Nebraska Avenue and East Busch Boulevard as part of Tampa's High Injury Network, prioritizing those corridors for Vision Zero safety and multimodal improvements. It does not identify the East Juneau Street and East Mulberry Avenue intersection for any specific project, the report noted. The city of Tampa had not responded to the station's inquiry by the time of publication.
Similar frustrations have surfaced elsewhere in Tampa. In East Tampa, a homeowner told FOX 13 News that crashes have struck the intersection outside her home for decades, including at least a dozen over the years, sometimes two or three times a month. She eventually installed yellow safety poles in her yard just to keep cars from reaching her house.
For now, Sulphur Springs residents are left to wonder how long they'll wait for improvements near Juneau and Mulberry. Those looking to flag a specific trouble spot can contact Tampa's Transportation and Stormwater Services Call Center at (813) 274-3101 to request an engineering investigation into a potential traffic safety problem, according to the city's transportation studies page.
