Glyen Pye is not the sort of woman who makes a song and dance about aspects of life she doesn't like.
She told the Advocate she's never been in trouble or caused a fuss and she doesn't want to annoy the police.
But motorists thundering past her Western Hills Drive home in Whangarei at high speed have alarmed her so much that she is protesting about them.
"Someone is going to get killed," she warned yesterday.
A 50km/h traffic sign outside the nearby Western Hills Drive entrance to the Morris and Morris funeral parlour near her home was obscured by a tree and she says some motorists ignore speed limits for the stretch of road anyway.
"Truck and trailers, cars, motorbikes. They are coming off the Kamo bypass and going past my place at 150km/h," Ms Pye said. She had phoned police five times since New Year's Day, asking for action to be taken against the speedsters.
"Each time they have said they are too busy to deal with it immediately, but they will send someone up to look when they get time," Ms Pye said. "But no one has come. They don't care."
Crashes in the area included a woman's out of control car going through Ms Pye's fence some time ago.
"There's children crossing the road and the traffic is moving so fast motorists don't get a chance to pull out of Percy St," she said.
"Someone will die unless something is done to slow down these vehicles coming off the bypass."
Others in the area supported Ms Pye.
Doreen Colebrook said she found it difficult to get her car out of her driveway because of the volume of traffic "screaming down from the bypass".
Kath Organ, who manages the Motel Sierra at 26 Western Hills Drive, said she had seen speeding motorists and suggested they were holidaymakers.
Northland's road policing boss, Inspector Murray Hodson, said yesterday police were definitely enforcing the 50km/h speed limit which applied at the southern end of the bypass and through the lights on to Western Hills Drive.
"It is one of the busiest intersections in Northland. The main issue outside Morris and Morris is two lanes of traffic merging," he said.
"Increased holiday traffic has added pressure, with motorists speeding up to beat red lights as they come off the bypass. We [police] are patrolling Western Hills Drive for speeding motorists and we are watching for non-compliance at those lights."