Oct 16, 2012 6:38 PM
Aggressive and distracted driving on East End roads—which are not designed to handle their current traffic volume—were named at a South Fork Highway Safety Roundtable last week as key factors in a rash of serious and fatal car crashes this past summer.
Although accident statistics provided by the Southampton and East Hampton town police departments indicate that fatalities did not spike in the summer of 2012, officials have identified the issue as a public safety concern.
“It seemed as if every week when you went online, it seemed as if there had been a major accident, fatality, throughout the summer,” said State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. in opening the discussion and noting that this past summer was the busiest since the economic crisis began in 2008. He listed a fatal hit-and-run... more
Although accident statistics provided by the Southampton and East Hampton town police departments indicate that fatalities did not spike in the summer of 2012, officials have identified the issue as a public safety concern.
“It seemed as if every week when you went online, it seemed as if there had been a major accident, fatality, throughout the summer,” said State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. in opening the discussion and noting that this past summer was the busiest since the economic crisis began in 2008. He listed a fatal hit-and-run... more
The pavement is not the problem. People's habits and actions are the problem. The longer something inanimate is blamed for the lack of skill, education, and experience behind the wheel nothing will change. Some people barely drive at all, so they never develop good and proper habits ...more from experience. Some people have logged so many miles driving is no longer about good habit. It's become innate and proper instinct. Most of us who make it a career are often the latter, and we get to watch all the "four wheelers" every day.
Out here the problem is quantity, and a lack of quality.
It's an island. A confined space.
And I'll give you that it's one factor, but where will you put them now? Eminent domain to create a shoulder from people's property already encroached upon? This place simply was not designed for the population it has been tasked with supporting. By man, or by Mother Nature.