Fallbrook residents raise alarm about speeding problems on Gum Tree Lane

Some Fallbrook residents are sounding the alarm about speeding problems in their area.

Neighbors along Gum Tree Lane say they have been concerned for years, but their worries were realized with a dangerous crash on New Year's Day.

The crash was "exactly at the spot we thought it would happen," said Tom Winter. "Gum Tree and Autumn Rose."

The crash, he said, happened when a speeding driver who was coming over a hill in the area – and thus blind to the road conditions ahead – struck a delivery vehicle coming out of a driveway.

Both people were OK, Winter said, but one of the vehicles was flung s...