Re: Another Tragedy on Highway 95

["david sarff" <davesway@hotmail.com>]

Greg's observation of the carnage on 95 follwed by his comments about a real 
lack of leadership with regard to safety points in the correct direction.
I believe that travel safety often seems to take a back seat to special 
intrest spending.
Often a [documented]dangerous section of road will go for years with little 
attempt to achieve any safety. Little things like warning signs or a small 
gravel escapement could make some impact at very little cost.
Why was the speed limit raised in that area of 95 when state knew it was 
already dangerous?
I asked the trans dept. that very question after the raised limits were 
posted.........No result.
Unnecessary Speed is only for money and selfish ambition.
The physics of cars operating around heavy trucks just doesnt work.
And if cars are going to get lighter then the problems will increase.
A change in the nature of shipping goods could help.

Dave.


>From: G M <herecomestheflood@yahoo.com>
>To: Vision 2020 <vision2020@moscow.com>
>Subject: Another Tragedy on Highway 95
>Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 17:29:19 -0800 (PST)
>
>My understanding is that there were three fatalities
>in
>the horrible accident south of Moscow on Highway 95
>today.  I also understand that a small child is in the
>hospital tonight as a result of that accident.
>
>Apparently a semi crossed the center line and hit two
>small vehicles just after 12 noon near, I believe,
>milepost 340 (I think it was on the incredibly
>dangerous stretch of road where 3 northbound lanes
>merge into two at a downhill curve about three miles
>outside of town.  Not sure what the name of that hill
>is even though I've commuted that route for over ten
>years and seen other fatal accidents at that site.)
>
>As fate would have it, I was delayed just long enough
>in Moscow today to not be at that point at that time
>on my commute.  Instead I left a few minutes later
>than planned and was stopped at the edge of town by
>MPD and told I would need to go through Pullman to get
>to Lewiston.
>
>These tragic accidents always have a profound impact
>on me and, to some degree, anger me.  With all of the
>carnage we see on our nation's highways, all of the
>lives lost or forever damaged, all of the victim's
>families who endure their own pain, it seems there is
>very little attention paid to this ongoing legacy of
>death and destruction.  No Partnership for an
>Accident-Free America, no presidential or
>congressional efforts to focus attention on the
>destruction that results from
>less-than-well-engineered highways and dangerous
>driving.
>
>Where is the leadership on this issue?
>
>
>Greg Meyer
>
>
>
>
>
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