ROCHESTER - Audrey Loebe has fixed her fence three times in the past five years. Each time it's the same thing - damage caused by drivers who failed to make the curve outside her farm on Academy Road.

Shards of glass sparkle in the gravel along the shoulder of the road, not far from Loebe's fence, remnants from a fatal accident Saturday.

A big gash on a young oak tree in her neighbor's yard across the street is a reminder of another recent crash. Not far from that tree sits a memorial for a young man who died over the weekend.

The area has developed a reputation, one Loebe and her neighbors don't like.

"All you have to say is 'the accident was on the S curve,' they know. There's been so many accidents here," Loebe said Sunday, the day after she and her neighbors watched rescue crews respond to the crash that killed one and sent another to the hospital in a Flight for Life helicopter.

Joe Schomisch backed away Sunday as he stood and watched cars round the curve along this stretch of Academy Road not far from his house. It's more a full-body flinch as the cars speed past.

His wife, Katie Zimmerman, does it, too. So do their neighbors. The reaction has become a reflex for the residents who live on this dangerous route between Rochester and Honey Lake. It's a short bit of road between two blind curves and it's been a source of grief for years.

It claimed another victim Saturday. Schomisch and his neighbors would like to see something done before it claims another.

It makes Schomisch nervous to stand too close the day after he saw a man lay dead in the street after yet another accident on this road.

A 27-year-old Honey Lake man died when he lost control of the pickup truck he was driving and flipped. Andrew Gustin was pronounced dead at the scene at about 10 p.m. Saturday.

Schomisch was in his garage painting when he heard the terrible noise. He and his wife have grown accustomed to the sound of cars that come close to going off the road.

"Once you hear the screeching you wait to hear if they pull out of it," Zimmerman said.

Many times they don't.

This was the second time in a month that Flight for Life has responded to the area for a serious accident. Accidents are a frequent occurrence here, neighbors say. Neighbors say there are at least 10 to 12 accidents here every year.

Most of the time they involve drivers who refuse to slow down and heed the warning signs as they approach the curve. Many times the culprits are local residents who should know better, neighbors say.

"We're all concerned about our families. We just hope we can get something done," said Bob Dros, another neighbor who lives along Academy Road. "We don't have the answer. We'd just like to have somebody look at it."

Dros and his neighbors worry about each other. Some won't let their kids walk to the end of the driveway to get the mail. Others won't let their kids play in the front yard.

Cindy and Jeff Wishau have, on more than one occasion, had a car come to rest in their yard. On Saturday, it was the pickup truck that authorities believe Gustin was driving.

Before that it was a vehicle that took a chunk out of their oak tree. Another time it was a vehicle that landed upside down in their pine trees out front.

The neighbors around here have grown accustomed to meeting when there are accidents.

"I wish we could spend time together as neighbors and not as spectators of serious accidents," Cindy Wishau said.

Wishau and her neighbors don't know what can be done to reduce the accidents. Loebe said she's tried to talk to Racine County officials - Academy Road is also called County Road FF - about trying to do something to make it safer.

The warning signs don't appear to be working, neighbors said. Loebe said she once asked the county about installing guardrails.

"They said it would cost too much to have them replaced. I guess it's easier to replace human lives," Loebe said.