Her grandfather, Leroy–I think, worked hard to improve the situation. He got them to lower the speed limit to 55 all the way down to Whirlpool Road, put up flashing amber lights on three sides of the intersection, more reflectors on the STOP signs, renew the rumble strips.

It’s too late for her but he tried to help others. Good man.

David for doing what you can do to help others

I have been on Hwy 97 driving to the doctor’s office, another car is on my tail when I am already doing 60 in a 55 on a winding, but not too narrower as the road used to be some 15-20 years ago.

What do you think? Too much SPEED? Too much GAMBLING? OR just NOT paying attention?

Considering how many others have way more crashes, it seems it isn’t all that bad at all other than the fact that a high speed crash is far more likely to be fatal than a low speed crash. I can fault people for speeding but most crashes in Bluff Springs come from locals who pull out in front of speeding vehicles.

It’s a wonder I’m not the only one left. Actually it’s a wonder even I am left because of neighbors who’ve pulled out in front of me. (Not that I don’t love them every one, it’s just that I miss them after they’re gone and the ones they take with them.)

I’ve been at crashes at Barrineau Park and US 29 and heard drivers say, “Well, I was just crossing 29 and everybody knows I do it this time every day.”

It was the fault of the outsiders for not knowing they intended to run the stop sign.

Years back, a lady ran into the back of a car in Flomaton.
She jumped out to tell the other man she was sorry.
“Don’t worry about it Mrs. Brown, it’s my fault.” [name made up or forgotten]
“How could it be your fault? You were parked.”
“Yes Ma’am, I was but I knew you come to town on Saturdays and I came anyway.”

AND

“. . . most of these happen, being rear-ended…YOU CAN NOT CURE STUPID!”

We understand that. This is likely why anydaynow wants to do away with having to stop. Anydaynow figures since people aren’t going to stop, it’s our fault for putting up stop signs and traffic lights.

I’ve been rear-ended by a lady who didn’t understand why I was stopped in the first place. After all the light had only been red for ten seconds or so. She had to hang up on the one with whom she was talking when she rammed me and call Highway Patrol.

And, of course, you CAN cure stupid but only with time and/or death. Somehow I’ve lived this long and don’t drive quite as stupidly as I did in my earlier youth–but I didn‘t think I was driving stupidly back then either.

I’ve lost a lot of unreasonable faith in my fellow drivers. I’ve seen a lot of people dead from carelessness–theirs or that of others, often both.

stupid, I have done myself!…All of us are in to big of a hurry because we don’t stop and think…

Good day folks!

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The two are fundamentally different beasts. You are in a modern roundabout if it is the entering driver who must yield to traffic already circling. You are not in a modern roundabout if you are expected to yield to entering drivers or if you encounter traffic lights or stop signs. Size is another easy distinguishing mark. The old traffic circles were huge, and actually required drivers to make fairly significant detours around a vast central area—typically just an expanse of desultorily tended grass. Roundabouts are typically half the size; some, like one in Kingston, N.Y., were built inside the infields of existing traffic circles. Rather than simple lawns, their centers may contain statues, beds of flowers, or any number of visual elements. Velocity is another telltale identification mark. The older traffic circles are often marked by high “entry speeds”—drivers come blazing in on long arcing curves and must then merge, highway-style. In the tighter spaces of the modern roundabout, the entrances and exits are “flared” with “splitter islands” that “deflect” incoming traffic.
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