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DRIVERS: You're not alone out there

| September 10, 2010 10:00 PM

The use of personal transportation for work and family necessity is without question required within the American infrastructure. However that need seems to have advanced from necessity to an entitlement or expectation.

In the last decade I have both witnessed and have been injured by the increasing lack of situational awareness or caution evidenced in a majority of vehicle operators. Driver's education seems to have neglected the simple truth that you share the road and responsibility with all the other various motorists and or pedestrians on the road. Principles of safety and courtesy too often are ignored with sociopathic apathy toward any other on the road. You forget that the car is a weapon that kills without prejudice and you the driver are responsible for control and safe operation of that vehicle.

Civil responsibility is to consider others before you pass one more car before that known lane merger or to beat the yellow light, or to get ahead rather than follow. To look and think twice being respectful rather than being egoist with arrogant indifference toward another's right to drive or ride in safety from harm or death. Please be responsible that others may live.

RON SPENCER

Bayview