Comments on: No Injuries In Highway 97 Single Vehicle Crash

By: Elmer Fudd

Elmer Fudd — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:21:20 +0000

I think the main problem is either not paying attention, or just plain ignorance. Sometimes my job requires me to stop on the side of the highway several times a day, depending on the shoulder of the road, sometimes I can’t get more than a foot or two off the road. It’s unbelievable the number of people that simply will not move one inch to the left to provide a little more of a safety buffer. Just today I had stopped on the side of the road and a woman with three children in her car passed just a foot or so from my truck. The thing was it was a long straight stretch of highway legal to pass in either direction, with at least 500 yards of visibility in both directions, no other vehicles on the road. Did she move over, not one inch, she hugged the right side shoulder of the highway as she passed. To me this is just pure stupidity.

By: traveler

traveler — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 19:01:31 +0000

@ Listening.. I was in the red car in front of the Honda Odyssey they tailgated me all the way to 20 and I was going 65

By: interested reader

interested reader — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:33:19 +0000

The problems on hwy. 97 are getting worse daily. It is hard to believe that something is on this site almost every day about wrecks. In reference to Tung Oil Road there is only one occupied house on it but it is a great cut-off to get to S. hwy. 99 and points west of there. The road is straight there (97) so visibility is not a problem. At the risk of sounding like a broken record- speed and not paying attention is the big problem.

By: Fred

Fred — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:26:11 +0000

Common sense is not so common anymore.

By: LoveBlueberrys

LoveBlueberrys — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:44:04 +0000

I saw this car this morning right before this accident. He was driving wayyyyy off the road and into ditches then!!

By: EMD

EMD — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:40:00 +0000

What is it about Hwy 97? Years ago, I had a neighbor who died in a head-on collision there on the way to pick up his pay check. This happened when a fellow employee fell asleep at the wheel after working the night shift, and crossed the center line. What is the explanation for the ones we read about here, continously, and what is it about Tungoil Road? It seems someone needs to study that.

By: Listening

Listening — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:16:27 +0000

I was tailgated severely this morning @ 7:20 am near Molino Park and was passed in the final stretch between the curve and the Tom Thumb. I was doing 60, so I wasn’t driving “too slow” I then watched the Honda Odyssey turn right onto the turn lane headed south on 29 and pass a car that was turning in front of him in the acceleration lane.

Monday I was behind a guy who was less than a car length behind a large RV towing a car for 5 miles. The RV was doing between 60 and 65.

Where o where is the common sense in this country?????????

By: Michelle

Michelle — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:53:50 +0000

Since people can not be trusted to drive safely around here especially on Hwy 97.
I hope there will be more police patrols and unmarked cars to catch these idiotic people in the act of total disregard for others.

Enough already, there is nothing in this world that is worth risking your life over.
SLOW DOWN. I’m not going to die because of you. Behave like a grown up, or lose your licence!!