Yesterday I was helping my son with his letter to the editor titled “Bad driving can hurt” (March 18). Just barely one day has passed and there has been another accident right in front of our house. A teenage boy driving excessively fast lost control of his truck, crossed the street, jumped the curb and crashed into a car parked in a driveway, sending it sailing. He ended up in the yard next door and then drove away. For quite some time, our family has been concerned over the amount of accidents in our neighborhood. Last year, while driving a vehicle he had stolen, a kid lost control while driving at high speed and drove across a yard, crashed through a fence then backed out on the street again. This happened minutes before kids began walking home from school. Of all these accidents, only one person did not attempt to leave the scene, and it happened that his car was stuck in the shed he had crashed into. What ever happened to taking responsibility for your actions? We have witnessed kids in their cars driving side by side drag racing at high speeds, pets getting killed and property being destroyed. Doesn’t it scare people to think that they could actually kill someone? Why all of the disregard and lack of respect for the law? If people continue to act with such impunity then it will eventually end with somebody getting killed. My son summed it up perfectly when he said, “Bad driving can hurt.”
DeAnna Allen
Tooele