Watch where you’re going!
I’ve got road rage. Not the kind of rage where you play chicken with a Ford flatbed truck and see who’ll give way on the merge. No, it’s a different kind of road rage.
I was on the way home from work the other day and noticed a group of kids waiting to cross W Street by the park. Well, of course, W is a feeder street onto the freeway from downtown so people are mad fools after 5 on that road.
I stopped to allow the boys to cross. The guy on my right also stopped. One boy was jogging across the street and nearly got hit by the fool who zoomed through the crosswalk at 50 miles an hour.
Did you know Sacramento (County) holds the state record for the most hit-and-runs? Oh yeah, that means Sacramento drivers leave the body on the road and keep going.
In California, Sacramento County ranks first in hit-and-run rates, and fourth in pedestrian fatalities, according to traffic safety statistics.
–The Bee
Aside from being angry, I wondered when the city would consider adding a stoplight at that location. Do we have to scrape body parts off the street before a light is installed?
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I enjoy that the Highway Patrol put up the message “Speeding Kills” on those electric signs. Aside from making people slow the heck down, it sounds like the title of a rock album.
I think they should put those signs up all over this county. Along with ones that say, “Use your turn signal! I’m not a mind reader.”