To the editor:

Regarding Ms. Carley Jessup’s “unsafe-roads” rhetoric: Just how in God’s name do you build a “safe” road today?

1) Nobody drives with their head;

2) Speed limits are for the other guy;

3) Yellow lines are mere road decorations;

4) Turn signals are just pretty lights on a vehicle;

5) People don’t get out of bed early enough to get to work on time without driving like hell — half asleep and running their mouth on a cell phone;

6) Anybody driving with a brain, using common sense, i.e. civility, is a road hazard.

Where’s law enforcement? In hiding until there’s an accident. Then, they show up in droves to “oh and ah” over the dead and injured.

Driving the speed limit on any highway (U.S. 24 specifically) will get you blown out in the ditch, cussed out, cut off short, honked at, etc.

At Ferguson Road and Highway 24 in Perry, nine out of 10 accidents are people who are driving like hell southbound and can’t get stopped at the intersection.

There are no “safe” roads.

Police can’t, or won’t, do their jobs of enforcing the basic speed limits so we are on our own.

It’s sad that good people have to die. Drivers need to use their heads and not their feet. The bottom line here is drive smart, not stupid. No Kansas road is any safer than you make it.

Gail Carpenter,

Perry