Impatient driving dangerous

Tue., Feb. 5, 2019

It is a week since I saw the possibility for another accident at this junction. I was headed south on Highway 2, approaching Colbert Road intending to turn right. I saw a Goodwill truck approaching from the south which then went into the turn lane to go across the southbound lane into Colbert Road. There was a people carrier ahead of me on the southbound lane; the Goodwill truck carried on across the southbound lane in front of the people carrier.

If I could see the Goodwill truck, then that Goodwill driver could see both my car and the vehicle in front of me, yet he carried on across the intersection, a possible accident in the making. (There is also another witness to this almost accident.)

The problem with this intersection is not lack of visibility - just impatient drivers - of which there are too many in this area.

Valerie Derks

Deer Park

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