I wish people would stop driving so fast

TO THE EDITOR:

After reading another article in the Southern Standard about a death that was caused from speeding, I wanted to give my opinion about speeding in hopes that it may save someone?s life or at least make people abide by the speed limit signs.

Highway 70 divides our property in Centertown and I cannot count the number of wrecks that have occurred in front of our house due to people speeding in the past 10-1/2 years since we have lived there. The worst one resulted in a death and every time I walk near that spot in my front yard I cry because I knew that person who died and his daughter who was seriously injured.

Evidently people don?t know the meaning of a speed limit sign or just don?t care. Sometimes when we pull out of our driveway onto Highway 70, if we don’t speed up we almost get hit from behind by drivers speeding from Woodbury. When we walk across Highway 70 to our barn, even though we don?t see any vehicles coming from the Woodbury area, sometimes we are forced to run across the highway because of speeders from Woodbury. At night the cars and trucks sound like jets because they are going so fast on the highway. I call Highway 70 raceway 70 because that is what it looks like if you sit on your porch and watch the vehicles go by. It?s not just drivers from Woodbury who speed. It is also drivers from McMinnville.

The speed limit is 55 mph and when you get closer to Centertown the speed limit sign states 30 mph and very few people abide by these signs.

If a state trooper or county deputy could find time to sit and observe these speeders, I’m sure they could write a lot of tickets and maybe people would slow down and obey the signs.

There are a lot of elderly people who must walk across Highway 70 to get their mail and I pray that they will never get injured because of a driver who is speeding. I hope a lot of people think after reading this and while traveling on Highway 70 they will slow down.

Demetria Smith

Nashville Highway

McMinnville