Drivers in one Osceola County community are nervous about a dangerous blind spot at an intersection.

Asha from Kissimmee writes in this week ...

"We need help with traffic at the intersection of Pleasant Hill and Eagle Meadow Lane. Traffic during rush hour is terrible and making a left turn is getting worse during the day. My car was even totaled here a few years ago! Lots of residents are afraid of exiting our community and it is getting worse. I do hope that someone will be able to help us."

When we visited the area, children and families first came to mind when you enter the single-family home community of Eagle Lake in Kissimmee. The entrance to the community is the intersection of Pleasant Hill Road and Eagle Lake Boulevard.

Some of those families say that conditions on Pleasant Hill Road have become so bad during peak hours during the last few years, they fear for their families' safety.

"Oh, the traffic in the morning? Forget about it!” said Angel Bermudez, one of the area’s residents. “To get from here to John Young? It's a good 20 minutes when it's a five-minute ride."

Bermudez and his family have lived here for the last 10 years and they say at times it can be extremely difficult exiting their community, especially making a left hand turn.

"When I make the left here? You can't! It takes like 10 minutes to make that left," said Bermudez.

To make matters worse, there is a bus stop just south of the intersection that acts as a blind spot against incoming traffic. The fact that the bus stops in the area pick children up outside of the community, says Bermudez, only adds to the morning's traffic nightmares.

"The school buses should just pick up the kids inside the subdivision instead of out. Once they put that red light on, that's it,” said Bermudez. “They hold traffic up! Forget about it!"

Residents are now so cautious about this intersection that, especially during peak hours, they are advising each other to make a right turn and then making a U-turn several hundred yards down the road rather than putting themselves at risk by making that left.

Some residents claim that a simple traffic light would fix the area. However, some claim giving one of the area's subdivisions a traffic signal, dangerous area or not, would open up a Pandora’s box.

"You know every community along Pleasant Hill will want a traffic light because they are going through the same process here,” said German Diaz, another resident.

Whether the community wants a traffic signal or not, they will be getting one according to Osceola County officials who I reached out to this past week.

They claim "... a traffic signal was warranted for this intersection and is included in the County's five-year CIP (2016-2020)."

They also added that, "The county is aware of the sight line issue caused by the shelter," but no immediate plans for relocation have been made.