How Many More????
What is it going to take?
#4 last night.
She “missed the curve.” Coming past my home on Calista Road, this driver “missed the curve.” That curve is 30 mph. The south bound speed limit sign is missing. Here are the other speed limit signs.
The first screenshot is as you come south into White House on Calista. The one just above is after you cross the freeway going north on Calista. It is 30 mph until after the freeway. It is 30 going south around this curve.
This is the curve she “missed.” She hit a telephone pole and spun around and ended up backwards on the other side of the street. She crossed the center line here and hit this pole.
She then bounced off backwards and ended up here, facing north.
My 16 year old son had just run to the grocery store. My 17 year old and his friend were in the driveway and saw it happen. Had she “missed the curve” a little differently, my son and his friend were in danger. My 16 year old was back before the fire department arrived. My 17 year old and his buddy were the first ones on the scene. Thank God they didn’t come up to a dead body. This is not the first time those boys were out in the yard when an accident happened. They were also out there when a motorcycle “missed the curve” and ran into a car. I was first on scene when a drunk truck driver “missed the curve” and hit the telephone pole. (that has still not been fixed 3 years later)
My children do not want to check our mail any more. The city and the county cannot solve this problem. Even if they put in a new speed limit sign, it won’t matter. Everyone has a map with Waze, or Apple, or Google, or Garmin. All of those apps will tell you what the speed limit is. We have a societal problem. It’s a problem that has been growing since the Boomers decided to burn their bras and hand out free love like Pez. The problem is love of self.
As a people we are so self involved and self inflated we cannot see what our actions are doing to the people around us. You are in a hurry, so you speed. That text was so important so you check it. It’s not your road, what does it matter how fast you drive. This is how I want things, so it should be that way. Those aren’t your kids, you don’t even have kids. Obey my pronouns. But wait, you say, that’s not me. Maybe you are one of the few to have a community around you, the proverbial village. Maybe you have parents and aunts and uncles that have come along side you in this journey we call life, but most of us don’t. This country has become filled with narcissists of the worst kind, and people don’t even realize it.
I don’t know why this driver “missed the curve.” My boys said she was flying down the hill. All I know is that there was something more important to her than the safety of my family and property. Heck, there was something more important to her than her own safety. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t believe that the children belong to the government and the village in some creepy Hillary Clinton way. I’m a rugged individualist who believes in Liberty. I just also believe in human decency and kindness. The world could use a little less “look at me” on TikTok, and a little more slow down and let someone in on the freeway.
Just one GenXers take on this crazy world we live in.
Wonder how many of those crashes are related to texting? We are killing each other every day because of a HABIT! I believe they have superseded the drunk driver as the most dangerous highway killer. When the phone exceeds 5mph it should be disabled. You can catch up when you stop.
I’m not sure it’s as much a problem of self love as it is the lack of teaching consequences for their actions. The reference of “helicopter moms” began when parents stopped having one home teaching children, and they had children at the end of a cell phone. I guess there’ll always be a need for that but teaching never stops, and personally I don’t think you can teach it from the end of a phone. I’m thankful this didn’t end up fatal as well, but how many near misses does it take before a fatality does happen, and everyone wished someone did something sooner? Teaching does start at home, and kids will be kids, but take a few tickets and reprimands from police and they get the message pretty quickly. Next will be Bethlehem Road, Pleasant Grove Rod, Cross Plains Rd. They are all treacherous yet no one is slowing cars down, no consequences...yet.